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Originally Posted by Imme
I may be shot down for saying this....no disrespect to those who are going through a very hard time with the fires at the moment however......
I live in a place that backs on to state forest managed by the Vic government.
The forest is a tinder box waiting to go up. When it does there is a good chance my house will as well if the conditions are right. It doesn't matter what I do to try and mitigate that....if the wind blows the right way it's just a fact it'll occur at some point either while I live there or in the future.
This is a choice I make.....I dont blame greenies, government or anyone else. I chose to live in nature and fully expect nature will bite me on the 4rse one day.
If I want to protect myself from fire I should move to the inner city.
People need to stop pointing fingers.....it's nature. Fires occurred naturally well before we were on this earth and they will continue to occur once our species has died out.
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Jon,
I for one won't shoot you down as I don't totally disagree with your sentiment.
Life is full of risks & pretty much none can be mitigated to the nth degree to make it all perfectly safe...
I also don't disagree with your comment regarding nature & fires but, I do believe we can in fact do more to mitigate the risks to both those people who choose to live in the bush & those species whose natural habitat it is.
We cannot, as you say prevent a bushfire from ever happening but, there are things that can be done to reduce the risk & severity. In that regard, I believe fingers do need to be pointed at those in a position to do something to reduce the risks, who for whatever reason, choose to do nothing.
Should you choose the option of moving to a city to try to completely protect yourself from the risk of fire, sadly, you'll just exchange one risk factor for a multitude of others so, me, I'd probably stay in the bush.
To use just one example, we introduced seatbelts, drink driving laws, speed limits & improved other the safety features in cars to reduce the risks involved in driving & having accidents. We've successfully done it in many other areas of our lives including mitigating the risks that nature throws at us.
Don't you think that where possible, we should be looking at other risk reduction strategies to protect ourselves to some degree in other areas?
Cheers