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Perhaps worth mentioning that Australia is doing less fuel reduction burns than in the past, especially near major urban centres with unfavourably wide directio
by scarab92 2y ago
Perhaps worth mentioning that Australia is doing less fuel reduction burns than in the past, especially near major urban centres with unfavourably wide directions.
Fuel reduction burning often requires blanketing millions of people with carcinogenic smoke for several weeks each year.
The greater good is to protect everyone’s lungs and accept that every few years we’ll have to rebuild a few homes.
- Ancalagon 2y agoThat makes no sense. A controlled burn shouldn't be as large as an out of control wildfire. For the cost of those burned down homes the government could hand out n95 masks by the basket-full. Not to mention you'll still have the smoke inhalation problem when you have those wildfire cases anyways - and in those scenarios you can't control what is being release in the burn.
- scarab92 2y agoHazard reduction burns need to occur on all land which is at risk of burning, whereas wildfires actually only occur on a small proportion of the land surrounding a population center each year. The result is much more smoke being emitted overall.