Is common sense not wonderful. What a shame the UN and their minions have none.
Growing up near Lincold County, NM, I learned early about how a forest should be maintained to prevent fires from spreading - clean the forest floor!
In the 70s I read a lot about Australia, which usually included the big fires and winds which threatened sheep farmers, and what they faced. Then came the environmental do gooders, telling them lies.
Finally, we hear the truth, they were providing fuel for the fires. Then add the climate change, as in Grand Solar Minimum, with it's droughts and winds, which have been causing crops to fail in Austrailia for a couple years now, and you have to address what you can, and face the truth about what you cannot. That is not what the UN and even US gov. is telling us, and thus they create victims.

Yes, Rand wished for the novel to be not prophetic, but reality is getting closer to dystopian fiction.

Sounds similar to Australia and California unfortunately.

A fireman will tell you that a fire requires fuel, an oxidizer and HEAT. Ignition can occur spontaneously with sufficient heat, a lit match will be extinguished if tossed into a bucket of cold gasoline. I've actually watched a piece of carbon in a bell jar filled with chlorine gas (oxidizer) spontaneously ignite when placed in direct sunlight.

It's right out of Atlas Shrugged, isn't it? Just a different subject.

Here in Northern Nevada, we have watched the fire seasons just get more and more horrendous. In our case the terrorists are the federal bureaucrats purportedly managing "our" public lands. With 87% of the State of Nevada being public lands, and the federal government claiming to own these lands, the increasing eco-management over the last few decades has sought to remove all grazing, all mining, all recreation and designate everything possible as wilderness. As a result fuel loads are horrendous, burn hundreds of thousands of acres which then sprout as invasive species cheat grass, which then burn again all the hotter and larger. But get those farting cows off the range and shutdown a way of life that was free and independent.

That's their idea.

guarantees long term excuse base for government power expansion.

It is true, the "fuel for the left." in Au certainly, they want large fires every 5 years, inevitable after the fuel build up .... to promote their agenda.

Indeed, climate "change" includes everything: heavy rains, floods, droughts, fires, anything you can think of ...

INTERESTING, its not global warming any more- its climate change which encompasses both global warming AND global cooling. Subtle, but indicates its all about government power, not actual crises.

I have to believe these fires both here in CA and in AU the fuel for the left. They will stop at nothing to promote their climate change hoax and over here to take out our President who they have hated from the day he entered politics. They consider loss of life as a worthy price to pay to promote their agenda and this is a sickness within our world.

Yes, create the problem and divert the blame to the innocent in order to increase the power and wealth of the guilty.

Better "authorities".

Good thing. Better "authorities" or privately managed?

Sometimes we wonder if the Greens would rather the mega-fires so the "climate change" bogeyman can be blamed.

Doesn’t anyone remember Smokey the Koala Bear?
For crying out loud he has been warning of the
Forest fire dangers for decades before Michael Mann’s makeup hockey stick.

Of course. They're evil. That it bothers me doesn't put me on their side or make me their stooge. I suppose that's my point. I'm the opposite of them.

Fair point. But MSM are exploiting cute,injured koalas for "climate change."

Yes, not the Left's narrative. Especially if young men with Islamic names appeared in court charged with arson, as the conservative Daily Telegraph reported. That's a double whammy for them.

Yes. It gets only cursory mention, or no mention at all. It does not fit the narrative.

I was bothered by a rattlesnake that died in a fire. It's not about cute and cuddly. I just never had a thing for suffering.

Thank you for this share.

Yes, Totally. Australian mega-fires are anthropogenic.

Thank you. Koalas are cuddly and cute and they invite sympathy.
But there is no Man V Koala anyway, that's just the way the greenies play it.
All wildlife is also better off with mild managed regular fires than a catastrophic one every 5-10 years. Note that koala populations can be shifted before managed burning.