Fires and friends in Australia

Tragic.

For ten thousand years the aboriginal peoples have burned off the brush in the summers. Then a few decades ago it became politically expedient to make that illegal. The end result was precisely the same as it has been in California where precisely the same mistake has been made.

The underbrush accumulates over a few summers and then instead of the controlled burns which are possible if they are done every year, you get wild fires. Mix in today's societal nut cases (arsonists) and you wind up with a deadly problem.

Tragic.

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