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Yeah, they tried the same thing here.

With the threat of forest fires people here are willing to give up their freedoms because of the off chance some idiot willl throw a cigarette butt out when he’s walking or hiking. The same idiot could throw it out of his car while driving on the highway.

I’m not one of those people willing to give it up. There’s a long history of the government here telling certain peoples they aren’t allowed to use the land in the ways they see fit.

Fuck the plough and the horse they road in on.

Kayne 4mo ago

Funny thing about forest fires, they are started by lightning not cigarettes, and rhe reason they are so devastating is because the government prevents indigenous land management (controlled burns during the cool season reduce the fuel load and prevent larger fires during the hot season)

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Sikto 4mo ago

Yep, they choose not to manage the forests properly, then blame the weather, and you and I.

Kayne 4mo ago

In 2017 here the government started imprisoning people for during hazard reduction burns on heir own farms.

Then they increased logging in state forests by 800%

Then Barnaby Joyce privatised our rivers so that multinational corporations like nestle could pump them dry and sell the water.

What followed was the worst bushfires in Australian history

Sikto 4mo ago

But it was because of climate change, eh?

Chef Tommy 4mo ago

This is exactly what my two brothers who are firefighters say. They would also add that counties and cities zone really retarded. Letting homes be built in high burn area without fire breaks and land management systems around them.