Also that article doesn't claim anything to do with the Greens. Classic meds trying to blame anyone he doesn't like. Surprised you haven't blamed Sadiq Khan and muslims.
Ignorant as usual. Green opposition to fuel reduction via burning and grazing in national parks. Ditto opposition to logging which hurts efforts to stop fire breaks being created. The ALP govt in Victoria was well aware of the issue but did nothing as they wanted to appease the greens and the ignorant squealers.
Typical Bades, apologist as always. This has been going on for a long time.
Bushfires: the solution is clear
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The extent of green opposition to hazard reduction was clear in the days following the Canberra tragedy. The NSW Nature Conservation Council on January 21 denounced the practice as "futile" and a "knee-jerk reaction". The NCC chairman, Rob Pallin, said: "People who claim that hazard reduction burning is a cure- all for bushfire risk are either fooling themselves or deliberately trying to fool the public."
The Greens MLC Ian Cohen followed up the next day, calling for "an assessment to the contribution of global warming to the severity of the drought", and "education and community awareness programs to reduce the incidence of arson".
Green ideas must take blame for deaths
It wasn't climate change which killed as many as 300 people in Victoria last weekend. It wasn't arsonists. It was the unstoppable intensity of a bushfire, turbo-charged by huge quantities of ground fuel, writes Miranda Devine.
www.smh.com.au
In July 2007 Scott Gentle, the Victorian manager of Timber Communities Australia, who lives in Healesville where two fires were still burning yesterday, gave testimony to a Victorian parliamentary bushfire inquiry so prescient it sends a chill down your spine.
"Living in an area like Healesville, whether because of dumb luck or whatever, we have not experienced a fire … since … about 1963. God help us if we ever do, because it will make Ash Wednesday look like a picnic." God help him, he was right.
Gentle complained of obstruction from green local government authorities of any type of fire mitigation strategies. He told of green interference at Kinglake - at the epicentre of Saturday's disaster, where at least 147 people died - during a smaller fire there in 2007.