Posted on 01/04/2020 12:34:30 PM PST by steveben
That you would do that on a thread about animals being burned to death tells everyone everything they need to know about you. You're disgusting.
Yeah that’s odd.
My idea of a good time isn’t riding a bike into a raging fire.
If ants and flies are animals, then yes.
Lighten up Francis!
It’s a lyric from an old song called “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”
I’ll be you are fun at parties!
Very astute and notable observation, thanks for adding to this thread.
Yeah one billion sounded a little high.
So if you laughed your ass of does that mean the best part of you is gone forever?
“..How much brush reduction is being done in Australia, “
It’s not that comparable a situation. First, these fires are primarily (not all) brush, scrub bushes, and I don’t imagine anyone is in much of a “preservation” mode of thinking about it/them.
Second, if you look at maps of the affected areas, we are talking vast. Australia is more or less about the same size as CONUS and these fires are happening all around the perimeter.
Third, in the US, the California-enviro mindset (against logging deadwood and piled-up slash from forests and maintaining fire roads) has been complained about and “doomsayed” for decades. All I am saying with this point is that the anti-fire measures that COULD HAVE been taken in CA in a VERY organized, controlled fashion and even partially paid for by the proceeds from lumber sales.
If you wanted to say that the Aussies have been on the negligent side not clearing brush I would not disagree, but I’m not on the ground there. Specifically, I don’t know if there were widespread warnings within Aus about this kind of thing, not that there should be any big surprise when severe drought into fire season produces nearly inevitable results.
Bump
Your “about page” is a mess.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/greens-made-australia-bush-fires-worse/
What a crime. Look at the graph.
Nothing they do would surprise me to them the ends justify the means!!! Loss of life so be it, loss of animals so be it, loss 9f ALL freedoms so be it ANYTHING goes when it comes to THEM ruling the masses!!!
Poor thing. I saw that photo earlier today and it broke my heart. I also wonder how many koalas have been lost in these fires. Last year we visited a wildlife sanctuary outside of Kingman, AZ. They had some wolves from California that had survived a Ca. wildfire by burrowing deep underground.
PLEASE PAY THE GOVERNMENT !
If only the Government had more money, these tragedies would not happen.
Deep State pensions.
Repair firetruck.
More State pensions.
Animal awareness.
Counter Deep State pensions.
And do not forget the State pensions !
It is for the children.
It is for the animals.
If anyone is interested, here is a link to an article with video of the wolves that survived. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/keepers-of-the-wild-sanctuary-rescues-wolves-displaced-by-wildfire/
A study of how the Martu shaped their land presents an example where humans seem to benefit an environment perceived as wilderness.
In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the bettong, or rat kangaroo, the brush-tailed possum and other medium-sized mammals all disappeared from the Western Desert. It was a mystery: Typically bigger animals vanish first — often only after people show up.
But ask the people who lived in this desert for 48,000 years what happened and many will tell you: They left.
“A lot of Martu people say that if there’s no people out in the country, then all the animals become absent. When the people and animals are absent, then the country becomes sick or unwell. There’s no balance there,” said Curtis Taylor, a filmmaker and young leader of the Martu community.
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“It was in that time that you get this wave of extinctions,” said Doug Bird, an author of the study and an anthropologist at Penn State University who has been working with the Martu to better understand how they care for their land. It seemed paradoxical to him: How could taking hunters out of the desert harm it?
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Burning spinifex to hunt for goanna, a sand monitor lizard, in Australia. These small hunting fires have helped sustain wild species, adding to the diversity of vegetation and contributing to food webs.
Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert (Feb. 8, 2019)
I am sorry that the animals are dying in such a horrific way. That being said, I will be in Australia in 3 weeks and plan to enjoy a meal of kangaroo loin.
Run the money printing presses overtime, until they melt!
Is there a valid position where one eats meat without apology, but at the same time recognizes that in exchange for the meal, a life was given, and one hopes it was given in a humane and compassionate way? Or does this very question place me in the realm of brainwashed leftie loonies?
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