Environmentalism kills…again

[BloodEclipse]

By Michelle Malkin • February 11, 2009 12:09 PM

Who’s to blame for those horrific fires in Australia? No surprise: Enviro-nitwit-ism is a culprit. Iain Murray has the damning details:

One of the main themes of my book, The Really Inconvenient Truths, is that misguided environmental policies often lead to humanitarian and environmental disaster. We’ve just seen another example in Australia, where fires have claimed many lives. Distraught survivors are certain they know at least part of the reason why the fires were able to do so:
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” he said.
It’s called bushfire season for a reason: the bush catches fire. If you want to reduce the effects, you cut back the bush. Policies that stop this are criminally dangerous.
It’s a similar story here in the US.

Arrgh. Will someone please invent me a +5 Magical Baseball Bat that I can use to knock sense into people?
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[smokingman]

Your wish has been granted by the DM...*poof +5 baseball bat of slaying is now in your hands! (it is to bad the bat only works on mythical creatures,in any number of alternate universes... it can also be silver plated for use in realms such a Ravenloft.

OMG....where did this nerd come from and what have you done with smokingman!!

PS. Twilight 2000 GM
Classic battletech player(MW3 GM)
D&D
Rifts
Top Secret
Car Wars
ect...are all acceptable means for the dispersion of free time.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

That is very unnerving. I'm diligently working on the invention, only as long as you use it here in the states first.

 

[Cwood]

Your wish has been granted by the DM...*poof +5 baseball bat of slaying is now in your hands! (it is to bad the bat only works on mythical creatures,in any number of alternate universes... it can also be silver plated for use in realms such a Ravenloft.

OMG....where did this nerd come from and what have you done with smokingman!!

PS. Twilight 2000 GM
Classic battletech player(MW3 GM)
D&D
Rifts
Top Secret
Car Wars
ect...are all acceptable means for the dispersion of free time.

Actually I think they need a +5 Seeker Baseball Bat of Environmentalist Bane (+3 to crit range extra 3d6 damage to environmentalist).

Wow, too many nights playing D&D, MERP, Twilight 2000 and Gamma World.

 

[jennybird]

These are the same kind of people who don't want us to kill "Bambi". They have no idea (or don't care) the devistation that would happen if deer hunting was outlawed and all the little Bambi's were allowed to run and breed rampantly.

 

[TRWXXA]

During the annual California wildfires a couple years ago, Fox News interviewed a guy who deliberately violated local ordinances and cleared the underbrush away from his home (only about 100' or so). His was the only home in the community that survived the fires. That clearly demonstrates what would happen if we stopped letting morons make the rules.

 

[printcraft]

These are the same kind of people who don't want us to kill "Bambi". They have no idea (or don't care) the devistation that would happen if deer hunting was outlawed and all the little Bambi's were allowed to run and breed rampantly.

Yes, that's why they have deer thinning hunts in the state parks every year.
Not enough food for the deer to eat with a high population means starving deer. We are the only predators around to keep them in check.

 

[jeremy]

Even the uber-socialist Germans still maintain the forests. That is what the Jäger are responsible for.