“ARSONISTS OR IDIOTS”
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019
(Sep. 10, 2019) — Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and sub-tropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa and South America. Even Captain Cook noted many fires in Eastern Australia in 1770, long before the era of “global warming” hysteria.
What is unusual is the number and ferocity of recent Australian fires.
Destructive bushfires need three things – a big load of dry fuel, hot dry winds and a point of ignition.
A big load of dry fuel, close to towns and buildings, in this season, is a sign of gross mis-management (seen most commonly in public lands). That fuel should have been raked, dozed or burnt in safer weather conditions.
Hot dry winds are not unusual in this season in these latitudes – no use whinging.
But how do 100+ bushfires start suddenly? Machinery occasionally starts fires but not 120 fires in a short time. There have been no lightning storms so who are the arsonists or idiots starting these fires?
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Viv Forbes and his wife Judy have spent a lifetime in the bush of Queensland and NT. They were both volunteers in a rural fire brigade for over 25 years. They have fought many bushfires and have seen several fires lit – some deliberately, some naturally, some carelessly. One careless fire burnt out their exploration camp in Arnhem Land, another accidental “fire with nine lives” threatened their grazing property in SE Qld, and a deliberate fire on another property cleared a lot of lantana and leaf litter from their property and also made the adjacent National Park a much safer neighbour.
Below is a true unpublished story about one fire we fought. We hope you find it interesting: “The Fire with Nine Lives”:
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/the-fire-with-nine-lives.pdf
I know it’s a rhetorical question, but there still may be one or two of you out there who can’t seem to get past the world beyond your rose colored glasses: Islam will do anything to gain control, and if that means to burn the forests of the world while burning to death every Koala Bear and every Joey; every deer and Beaver; every Emu and Bald Eagle, so be it. The adults of any species may survive, but the young seldom do. Bad way to go: burned to death. People have been known to jump out of tall buildings as a better choice than to be burnt alive.
Since you, as us, allow psychopaths into your country, you can’t pretend to be surprised at the random machete attacks, premeditated honor killings, vehicular homicides and your forest being decimated by people who don’t think as we do, and as long as they live by the book of hate, never will.
I have spoken.
Chief New Leaf