On Feb 12, 10:44*am, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:
"boozn" wrote in ...

This nature-first faith must now be junked at last:

February 12 2009

LAST year the Wilderness Society published a six-point action plan to
"reduce bushfire risks and help to protect people, property, wildlife and
their habitat". The society asserted that a "massive increase in hazard
reduction burning and firebreaks is destroying nature, pushing wildlife
closer to extinction and in many cases increasing the fire risk to people
and properties by making areas more fire prone".

**And here is the six -point plan:

http://www.wilderness.org.au/files/6...ce-bushfire-ri...

Feel free to address each point and tell us what is wrong with it.


As if Bonzo could. All he does is copy and paste, frivolous remarks
and slander.

The really telling thing about this document is that it explicitly
endorses fuel reduction and other fire containment measures,
underlining the complete indifference of the Bonzo troll to reality
when pushing his misanthropic pro-pollution agenda is at issue

Thanks for posting this though

The only comment I would make on the document itself is that in some
places, it might be technically and commercially feasible to *harvest*
ground fuel, and put this through an anaerobic digester to create
methane, or perhaps use a solar concentrator to make syngas, which
would be a far more environmentally benign end usage for the fuel.
Because this would exceed the costs of harvest, it would be
economically sustainable, and because it would perforce have to be
done locally, this would contribute to regional employment and local
energy resources.

Simply backburning, while often necessary, does seem a complete waste
of what are, after all, biomass energy resources.

Fran