Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/2026 2:23 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:20:28 -0400, 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.
> 
> Asl if tree huggers had the power to allow or not allow anything.
 >
It's very difficult for one individual to prevent forest fires when they 
do nothing and deny they have a problem with fire prevention in Canada.