We’d let it go, but they never will. So, here we are, talking about Australia. Because it is still burning. Why? The same reason we have these problems in California. Environmentalists are to blame. And it matters to you, here, because they are using that to advance their eco-socialism everywhere.
Related: Australian Police: Arson is to Blame for Much of the Devastation…
Environmentalist regulations are the reason for this year’s devastating wildfires in Australia. These misguided measures prevented landowners from burning off dry brush. For decades, every year during the Australian winter, across the continent, brushfires were deliberately set to safely burn the undergrowth. Even in pre-colonial times, the aborigines set brushfires to prevent tinder from accumulating.
On the Left Coast, the environmentalists drive policy that prohibits clearing deadwood or controlled burns. The result is massive forest fires.
How smart are they?
A controlled burn is a method practiced for centuries by locals. It has been used by tribesmen, or just about anyone with a whit of sense and a desire to protect the resource and the people and things that rely on it. But Democrats are not interested in anything but a crisis. And Australia is proof.
What’s happening in Australia is preventable. The title of a January 11 article in The Spectator says it all: “Fight fire with fire: controlled burning could have protected Australia.” The author, Australian Tim Blair, writes, “A kind of ecological fundamentalism has taken the place of common sense.”
Blair provides several examples of land owners and utilities in Australia who were fined by the government for clearing “safe space” around their homes and other structures, or for clearing firebreaks, or for setting controlled burns.
Punish those trying to prevent disaster so that when disaster comes, you can use it to grow government. It applies to everything the left does. Create a crisis or invite one (with the help of arsonists or even eco-arsonists) politicize it, and make sure that it does not go to waste.
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