Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

At Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:19:14 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> "Nobody fucks with the Jesus!" - Jesus Quintana.
>
> https://tinyurl.com/yy7hf6hy

"dart200" thinks Gen X are "boomers" too.

I think he's showing signs of cracking.


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