by Stix » 21 Dec 2019, 8:09 pm
Ok...so...spoke with a farmer over here & he had a fire burn out a patch of scrub on his block...thankfully everything is ok, except for loosing a patch of mallee scrub...
But one thing to note, & i think is a valid point of discussion, is this...
With these verbs used in extreme terms to describe these fires & the weather now-such as "catastrophic" etc etc.,-which is all to sensationalise the topic & create a fear...the clever gen Y & Z's that are excercising their power, along with the last of the baby boomers & gen Gen X's who forfeited their right to think for themselves, bring these fire restrictions in earlier each year...
Now, yes im a city boy, but i grew up chasing furry creatures out bush & learned to shoot, hunt, & appreciate the bush at a very ripe early age, & i seem to remember farmers burning off areas,& ripping & burning smaller perimeters...
But when the fire bans kick in earlier each year due to these preemptive "Catastrophic" times we are going to have, the undergrowth is still green, & a fire to burn off wont take hold...i know this for fact having seen it, & been involved in extinguishing what would have been a disaster bush fire, had it not been for the undergrowth being green in early october a few years ago...(this green undergrowth being, if you look at the grasses that have effectively "headed" and are dry, under them at ground level is a small amount of late blooming grasses that are still green, & without the aid of a stiff wind, a fire cannot generate enough heat to start a grass fire that rapidly becomes out of control...)...
So whats with this...???...
Local & State Govts filled with uni graduates who have quoted phrases out of text books for four years which then deems them officially "qualified" to override farmers, deem farmers too stupid to mitigate their own fire breaks--farmers that have been on the land & have generations of wisdom & actual working knowledge of their environment, & deem they are smarter in preventing these "stupid farmers" from starting a bush fire by way of stupid regulations, as well as not carry out actual necessary preventative measures, allow people to build in heavily wooded areas for extra income from rates & development approvals, while also making it ridiculously hard for these new home owners to fell a few trees that will potentially prevent a fire destroying a dwelling...
Ive babbled on a bit there & its probably hard to read fluently, but im sure you get my drift when i say, it seems this "climate change" bullsh!t is self propelling & self prophesying...
I do wonder if common sense, and "what is right", will ever be the dominating belief of us humans again...or if the self-righteous need for, & to exercise power will be the cause of our own self destruction...
The man who knows everything, doesnt really know everything...he's just stopped learning...