Grindelwalddave wrote:Very heartbreaking looking through this. Lot of blame directed towards Greens/Greenies/Environmentalists on social media...
None of which can be supported by facts. I've seen people saying that if cattle grazing hadn't been stopped (in the South West??) this wouldn't have happened, that natural forests are a hazard (actually,monoculture plantations are the biggest problem), that we should be raking the forest floor to remove fuel (yes, this one turned up here), all sorts of rubbish.
Then there's the old line about "the bush burns and it will all regrow in no time". But fires like this are not normal, the alpine and Gondwanan vegetation communities are not fire-adapted, dry lightning strikes in this quantity are unheard of in Tassie . . .
We need to get the real story out, but it seems most of the MSM is ignoring it.