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There is an argument, perhaps no longer PC, that the indigenous population used fire to hunt, and so burnt off regularly. Fires these days are indeed devastatin
by Peteragain 10mo ago
There is an argument, perhaps no longer PC, that the indigenous population used fire to hunt, and so burnt off regularly. Fires these days are indeed devastating because we try to stop them. Established eucalyptus trees also thrive after a scrub fire; a "devastating" fire kills them.
- herdymerzbow 10mo agoCultural burning is pretty much the current accepted understanding of how Australian indigenous people managed the land prior to colonisation. https://study.unimelb.edu.au/student-life/inside-melbourne/cultural-burning-and-the-australian-landscape https://study.unimelb.edu.au/student-life/inside-melbourne/c... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming Just want to reassure you that is not at all 'no longer PC'. If anything, the practice was banned by the coloniser - only for it more recently reintroduced.
- Peteragain 10mo agoThanks for the confirmation!