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05/01/20

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Originally posted by dave sss: ↑

It's time to put the misinformation about hazard reduction burns to bed. This is a false narrative that's being propagated by the interests of the fossil fuel lobby. It's a political tool, but more importantly it's a deliberate attempt to divert attention away from the scientifically proven link between the climate crisis and the intensity and frequency of fires.
- Fire ecologists and fire-fighters have repeatedly made it clear that lack of fuel-reduction burns aren't a significant factor in these fires.
- A recent Australian Council of Emergency Services inquiry into major fire events last summer concluded the same.
- Fuel reduction burns are tightly regulated by necessity and with extensive consultation with fire services, because they have caused and continue to cause so many damaging fires.
- For example, prior to the introduction of regulations, the 1967 fires in Tasmania, which claimed 69 lives and over 2000 homes, were a conflagration of escaped fuel-reduction burns by industry and private land-owners.
- Where reducing fuel loads is required, climate change is shortening safe burning periods
- Major funding cuts to National Parks and Firefighting services have limited resources for completing fuel reduction burns.
- Hazard reduction burn regimes are devised by fire-fighters, not by politicians.
Read more about hazard reduction burns and bushfires here:https://mobile.abc.net.au/…/hazard-reduction-burns…/11817336?

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So are you saying the fire breaks and back burns where sufficient in a preparatory/planning/strategy sense to mitigate the bushfires???

Are you saying the Greenies were pro fire breaks and back burns??

Are you saying despite admin efforts politics facing political pressure have no influence and the fish does not rot at the head in this case in terms of spheres of influence politically??

Are you saying the ABC drivers have no political connections?

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