Eco-Killers in Oz

We had fires in the West some years ago for the same reason--environmentalists not allowing brush to be thinned, which enabled major, major forest fires and loss of thousands of acres of trees, not to mention loss of habitat. I remember seeing scarred mountainsides in Montana.

In Australia people died. Ian Murray:

One of the main themes of my book, The Really Inconvenient Truths, is that misguided environmental policies often lead to humanitarian and environmental disaster. We’ve just seen another example in Australia, where fires have claimed many lives. Distraught survivors are certain they know at least part of the reason why the fires were able to do so:

During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” he said.

It’s called bushfire season for a reason: the bush catches fire. If you want to reduce the effects, you cut back the bush. Policies that stop this are criminally dangerous.

It’s a similar story here in the US.

HT Michelle Malkin. The stimulus bill has half a billion dollars in it to encourage this kind of destructive behavior.