<OT> Re: Big problems in Oz

[Net Llama!]

Errr...this is the THIRD time i've gotten this email.

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Lee wrote:

> On Thursday 05 December 2002 23:30, Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:04:09 -0600 ronnie gauthier
> >
> > <ronnieg at chartermi.net> wrote:
> > > If 200 naked dancing fillies doesn't do it then towing an iceburg is
> > > a last resort. Does AU have any desalination plants?
> > >
> > > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:12 -0500 - "Leon A. Goldstein"
> > > <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote the following
> > > Re: Re: <OT> Re: Big problems in Oz
> > >
> > > >Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > >> If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002...
> > > >
> > > >the 48> continental states reported some measure of drought
> > > >effects,
> >
> > Memory serves you right.  The mountain and western states had the
> > worst growth and forrest fires in about 100 years (Colorado most
> > especially).  I don't know how that sort of thing is handled down
> > under, but many people believe that the severest problems were created
> > by several decades of failure to prune old growth forrests
> > (environmentalist wackos would never allow that) which become
> > tinderboxes with passage of time.
> >
> > Fire is part of the natural world's forest management technique. After every
> fire there is a revitalization of burned areas. Fire only becomes a problem
> when people with more money and greed than brains build their houses (or
> should I call them real estate investments?) in the middle of the forest. As
> for pruning the old growth,  that's just lumber industry baffle garb for
> clear cutting the old growth forest's 500 year old Douglas Fir and 1000 year
> old redwoods to make picnic tables for yuppies and more houses deeper in the
> forests.
>
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