As the world watches Australia battle one of the most unprecedented bushfire seasons we’ve ever seen, there’s a secondary story that’s been gaining momentum: Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his response to the fires.
Amongst the devastating losses, the spreading fire threat and the mass evacuations there has also been a lot of noise and anger being directed at our leader. His name is trending, but not in a good way.
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I've always been reluctant to discuss politics on a heavily moderated site. It gets a bit too emotional and bat shit crazy with zealots and all
Climate change topics are even worse apparently - sheesh, hold my beer, I'm diving into this sweaty grubby mosh pit
So, the fire triangle is heat, oxygen and fuel. We can do nothing meaningful about the first two but government can certainly do a lot about fuel loads. Instead of managing them, the green agenda has prevented clearing and fuel reduction.
Victorians bought a class action here about our bushfires. The case ran 18 months and at the last minute, the state government settled for about half a billion because they knew they were about to lose over their mismanagement of fuel loads.
Government green tape needs to go in the bin and land management needs to be returned to land owners. Crown land needs to be managed responsibly, not ideologically.
Wasn’t the class action paid by an energy supplier as it was found the fires were caused by a faulty power line? Unless this is a different bushfire, but I’ve assumed it was the black Saturday ones.
If it were such an issue why have we not have bushfires this catastrophic until now? The extreme and prolonged bushfire season is exactly what was predicted by the CSIRO by 2020 due to climate change.
Explain how climate change is causing a spate of arson attacks and can you walk us through how a carbon tax alters the fire triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen? What wouldn’t fuel load reduction and management work better?
Just keeping count: so far you have blamed the Greens, now arsonists, and also likened a schoolgirl to a Nazi. I must say, it's hard to keep up with how many peripheral things you manage to point at simultaneously.