This material* is bewildering and reflects disastrously on the hoodwinked Australian political class – business and academic position holders who may enthuse about controlled burns & mosaic burns, fire retardant liquids, soil health and so on while appearing to walk away from the horrific global loss of subsoil moisture & vegetation drying even dying simply because of excessive solar radiation due EXCLUSIVELY to the lunatic homicidal & ecocidal belief that the atmosphere can sustain 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being pumped into it each year.
I believe it only dropped to 41,000,000 tonnes in the #Covid_19 shut down year of 2020-1. In Australia, as all over the world we have government that claims to serve the children & families of working women and men actually approving new #coal mines without let or hesitation, the building of dams that will drain aquifers and destroy riparian (river-), wetland- and coastal-ecology to supply the mines, even building a BOGUS ‘high energy low emissions’ coal🔥’ed #electricity-generation station (Collinsville, Nth Qld), gas turbine power plant and gas powered Spinning Reserve machines worth hundreds of millions continue to be imported into the country from Wartsila & General Electric – even directly subsidised with tax revenues to the tune of hundreds of millions, massive new gas fields are ok’d** – the Labor Party pushing out a chief minister who apparently stood up for public health, decency and sanity – and as as we’re all painfully well aware $10.1b per year goes to #FossilFuels governments’ freebies, handouts & subsidies.
Oh yes, we all say, we have to do something about “climate change.”*** Oh yes, says the greatly respected Greg Mullins, Labor will do better. Kylea Tink MP says a 43% is a ‘floor’ to lift up from and the excruciating human stupidity of incrementalism (once called reformism in a long-lost mid-19th to early-20th century debate about the overthrow of permanent-warfare monarchies propped up by bloated capital by uprisings & insurrections of labourers, serfs and underlings..). Incrementalism. Run some $50m #greenwashing advertising campaigns! Assuage, sentimentally massage, schmooze, tell beautiful lies, embrace phoniness & tokenism as if there were no tomorrow and sell yet more millions of kilojoules of Renewable (dig hole/ get more/ yeh man/ what engineered society-wide dumbdown?/ You hippie!/ Alarmist!/ witchcraft at Salem Massachusets/ a threat to #peace, #justice & the Australian way of life) Gas.
Don’t people appreciate that global heating due to greenhouse gases has already wrecked 6-8,000 years of weather systems security? Which would take 350 or more years to regain even if we cut carbon & nitrous oxide emissions by 90% next year?
I despair for this country. And for our grandchildren & great grandchildren.
John Blundell, South Australia
*Khory Hancock, General Manager & Environmental Scientist, on LinkedIn – that i read 6/6/2022:
“It’s been over 2 years since the Australian bushfires took out millions of hectares of land across south east Australia.
“I drove through the Blue Mountains, through Kosciusko National Park and into east Gippsland in Victoria earlier this year…and was devastated.
“Billions of trees annihilated, standing like black toothpicks as far as the eye can see. This is not just happening in Australia, but all over the world.
“The intensity of the fires were unprecedented and mainly occurred in national parks, but why is this? There are a combination of two main reasons:
“1. Vegetation mismanagement
2. Climate change
“HOW DO WE PREVENT THIS FROM OCCURRING INTO THE FUTURE?
“It’s Important to note that one single fire ‘blanket’ management strategy can not be applied to the whole of Australia – for example you can’t simply say ‘we need to burn off every year to reduce fuel load on every bit of land’.
“Each area, each different ‘ecological niche’ responds differently to fire. Fire ecology is incredibly complex and the scientific knowledge constantly gets updated. Even though we can’t apply the same management strategy to any single area, we can apply the PRINCIPLES, which will ultimately determine the fire strategy moving forward. These principles are as follows:
“1. FIRE ECOLOGY – using scientific case studies for every different ecosystem type, use the findings of how the flora and fauna respond to fire frequency and intensity into management strategy (for example, plants may or may not need fire in order to reproduce).
“2. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE – practises such as ‘mosaic burning’ where possible and local flora/fauna knowledge responses is crucial (read Victor Steffensen’s book ‘Fire Country’ for indigenous fire management principles.
“3. CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS – climate change has completely changed the Fire game. Incorporating the predicted temperature rises, droughts, decreased rainfalls, increased evaporation rates and frequency of heat waves is crucial to future fire planning.
“4. HAZARD/FUEL REDUCTION – how this is done is the key, whether it be through regenerative grazing practises using cattle or sheep, or cool and more frequent burns (depending on planned frequency from a consensus of the other 3 points).
“Australia needs to turn their focus to the future, by working on regenerating the millions of hectares of land and wildlife destroyed by our mismanagement.
” #climatechange #regeneration #bushfire #firemanagement “
*** It’s man-made global heating
Climate change alas is only ANOTHER in an enormous string of oil economy public relations and accountancy firms and corporate lawyers’ euphemisms and poor anthropomorphic or mechanomorphic metaphors dreamed up since Stephenson’s Rocket (..an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines @Wikipedia)
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