Perascamin posted... I'm all about green energy reform and taking better care of the environment, but how exactly is the current bushfire situation the fault of humans?
Bushfires are so common in Australia that the ecosystem depends on them for floral life to reproduce. It's not like a person set the current blazes. It's a horrible situation.
Fire chiefs from years past, as well as current fire chiefs, have mentioned climate change as a factor in worsening bushfires. The base temperature going up by even 1c worsens fire conditions significantly - things dry out more, fires are more likely to start etc. the hotter it is, and Australia's temperature is getting hotter and hotter every year. The only people who have been downplaying or refusing to talk about climate change have been our right-wing politicians, like our prime minister who left the country for a holiday after the bushfires had already been burning for a month.
Australia's climate scientists and our fire chiefs - some of which were in charge during Black Saturday, Australia's previous "worst bushfire on record" - have taken climate change into consideration in regards to worsening fire conditions. They've been warning the public and asking for an audience with the PM since last April, and the Liberal government wouldn't take climate change into account even with these experienced fire chiefs bringing it up as a very real factor.
Labor and the Greens are willing to come to the table on this. Current and former fire chiefs are willing to come to the table on this. The prick who left a burning Australia to holiday in Hawaii and his cabinet of cronies are the only ones downplaying climate change in regards to its role in our fires. Side with them, and you're siding with one of the stupidest ruling parties in Australian history.
In regards to your next point, bushfires are common in Australia. Backburning is meant to reduce the risk of these bigger bushfires, and bushfires have been happening for centuries to clear land and make way for new life. However, bushfires usually leave something behind, and with modern infrastructure we.have to balance cleansing fires with the lives and needs of the people living in the bush.
Also, one or two fires every year seems to be started by some punk kid. A few of the fires last year were lit deliberately, including by a fire fighter who would start fires so he would be called out to put it out, which got him paid. So yeah, people have been known to light some of Australia's bushfires. In prior years, deliberately lit fires have been some of the worst ones for fire fighters to deal with.
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