Tuesday night, went to an extremely lucid presentation by a forest scientist of great experience which showed, in a quite matter-of-fact way, what an environmental disaster the green take-over of environmental management in Victoria has been. A discussion at another meeting the next evening added further and better particulars
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As a recent graduate (twice now) in botany and ecology, certainly the young'uns know.
The debate about leaving everything alone, and burning, appears (in my opinion, and from sitting in lecture theatres) to be more about the issue of 'what is natural?' The first problem, is that when people say 'natural' it is a tricky concept. Do you mean we should revert back to what we were doing in the 1930s? Before white settlement? Before human settlement?
There are people who go for the 'before human settlement' approach, which means fire is entirely random, and we shouldn't touch anything (if you want to be smart, you can suggest removing all of the sclerophylls and trying to revegetate large swathes of Victoria with Northofagus species, but they often don't seem to care about the individual plants that make up an ecosystem, more about the conceptual feeling of reverting the environment back to nature as it should have been ( ... )
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Really, Lorenzo, this obsession with the Evil of Green looks like a religious article of faith in its own right. The obsession with the idea that anyone who is concerned with environmental issues is unreasonable and religious - they can't possibly have come to their position through reason and fact because if they did they'd agree with Erudito - looks like fundamentalism to that faith.
1. read: ‘most influenced by the Horrible Green Religion Just Ask Andrew Bolt’
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As a considered response to your rant, I'm off to dreadlock my hair, hug trees, and tear up my PhD. Then maybe I'll fit the stereotype.
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Such an attempt at parody will simply mean that any sensible argument you might be presenting will be overlooked. If you going to criticise Green policies you'd be better served by actually criticising real polices rather than strawmen best suited in a USENET flame war.
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