At last, some meaningful discussion...
Chris, you are as I understand it correct, not everywhere should be burnt. Not only due to reductions in biodiversity but, also because some bushland does not benefit from it, does not require it for regeneration & in many cases are lost forever because of it.
This is something our indigenous people actually understood, they did not wholesale burn everything because they understood what the land needed.
Thanks Andy, I really appreciate it when someone with the scientific background I lack chimes in with facts & data to support what so many simply fail or refuse to see.
To address the elephant in the room; Climate Change & the anthropomorphic acceleration of natural cycles by increased CO2 levels.
The problem as I see it is often the language used to describe the problem; it's a complex issue, it's not just the changing of CO2 levels leading to temperature shifts & increased extreme weather events; it's (as I learned quite recently) the increased uptake of CO2 by our oceans leading to acidification of a significant part of our biodiversity equation; it's poor land management practices, it's the destruction of the fine balance in our atmosphere, our oceans, our environment & our ecology that enables life as we know today to continue to exist.
People dumb it down (including activists) to the simple term of 'saving the planet'; The planet's fine in general terms. As naysayers are apt to point out, the planet has gone through plenty of changes in climate over it's existence. Trouble is, it's also gone through a significant number of mass extinction events both through climate variation extremes as well as catastrophic collisions with interstellar visitors.
As I read it, what is happening now is the potential for another not necessarily man made but, certainly man assisted mass extinction event which will likely remove us & who knows how many other species along with it...
I fail to understand how a species that has the ability to at least try to stave off it's own demise, wilfully refuses to participate in it's own continuance...
Perhaps our time has come... perhaps we no longer 'deserve' to continue, I don't know sadly, we'll take a lot with us if we don't do something.
The planet... well it will continue as it has for the past 4.5 billion years, it will morph, it will change & who knows, perhaps after the next mass extinction event new life will emerge...