Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/2026 2:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:28:14 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 5:23:29?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> 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.
>>
>> They vote.
> 
> Same as the tree choppers.
 >
Just for the record you live in a house made out of lumber, right?