Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/2026 2:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
> On 7/31/26 1:42 PM, Tara wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 4:37:14 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/31/2026 4:31 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 4:20:28 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/31/2026 2:06 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:40:32 PM EDT, "Wilson" 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09 PM EDT, "Julian" 
>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17 PM EDT, "Julian" 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> these very pages
>>>>>>>>>>>>> last year that government policy was worsening the fire 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> risk on
>>>>>>>>>>>>> moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say: ‘I told you so.’
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> threat of wild
>>>>>>>>>>>> fires with prescribed/controlled burns for centuries. Canada 
>>>>>>>>>>>> is looking to do
>>>>>>>>>>>> the same in co-operation with our native people. We have a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> problem doing this
>>>>>>>>>>>> however because of the acessibility and vastness of our 
>>>>>>>>>>>> forests. But in a
>>>>>>>>>>>> country the size of Britain (and other European countries), 
>>>>>>>>>>>> it seems to me
>>>>>>>>>>>> that controlled fires are a no brainer.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>>>>>>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and 
>>>>>>>>>> send a lot of
>>>>>>>>>> smoke to people populated areas.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A bit like a volcano.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah like that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet 
>>>>>>> we've had
>>>>>>> serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks ago it
>>>>>>> literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was 
>>>>>>> otherwise a
>>>>>>> clear day look cloudy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed- 
>>>>>>> midwest-northeast-us/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really 
>>>>>>> looked like.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am an admitted tree hugger but I am also a realist and think 
>>>>>> that one answer
>>>>>> here is controlled burning. Another is education and strictly 
>>>>>> enforced laws
>>>>>> against those who are careless and start fires through laziness 
>>>>>> and ignorance,
>>>>>> clearing vegetation around and near dwellings and building fire 
>>>>>> resistent
>>>>>> homes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes I agree. The funny thing is, the idiot treehuggers I'm talking 
>>>>> about
>>>>> are killing more trees by not allowing beneficial things like 
>>>>> controlled
>>>>> burns.
>>>>
>>>> Exactly. Somebody aught to tell them.
>>>
>>> They are too much like Nick, think they know it all.
>>
>> Do you think they will ever grow up? Maybe they will just get old and
>> inefectually fade away - we can only hope.
> 
> one thing's for sure:
> 
> boomers will take their fucking abject stupidity to the grave for sure, 
> and we will mock them for generations in how absolute shit they were in 
> regards to the future
> 
That's funny, Nick. Good one! You're already thirty-something.

So, I can't believe you don't belong to a bowling alley.

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