General Australian Fires - Why are foreigners donating to the wealthiest country on Earth?

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Sheepdog

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I'm just gonna leave this here

Scientist David Packham on what’s really causing the bushfires
I have a small 60 acre property in central Vic and the local CFA told me I could not do any hazard reduction burning and they had no resources to supervise a burn. I will re-apply this winter when cooler heads might prevail. I have two fire pumps and a 1,000 ltr tank mounted on a pallet, plus a backpack, clothes and shovel. I was told not to do anything and a permit would not be approved. slashing and bulldozing are my only resources apart from poison and ploughing. All have draw backs, all are harmfull one way or the other, most are too expensive. Very frustrated small holding farmer wanting to reduce fuel loads.
That 'scientist' you mention has qualifications that wouldn't get him a job mopping floors alongside me at Pizza Hut. If he's a 'scientist' then a random dipshit on this forum is Albert Einstein. Quote is also from 2013.

Also, you seem to fail at basic reading comprehension. Nobody is arguing that hazard reduction doesn't work. They're arguing that climate change (an empirical fact - Australia is getting hotter) makes it far less effective and more difficult to manage. Conservative governments have fucked it up mainly.
 

Jehannum

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Furry muff. They reclaimed their spot since the last report I read. Australia is the 2nd wealthiest country after a bunch of chocolate-gobbling multilingual, secret bank account-holding, Hitler-appeasing queers.
It's time for the extermination.
 

ShatsBassoon

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That 'scientist' you mention has qualifications that wouldn't get him a job mopping floors alongside me at Pizza Hut. If he's a 'scientist' then a random dipshit on this forum is Albert Einstein. Quote is also from 2013.

Also, you seem to fail at basic reading comprehension. Nobody is arguing that hazard reduction doesn't work. They're arguing that climate change (an empirical fact - Australia is getting hotter) makes it far less effective and more difficult to manage. Conservative governments have fucked it up mainly.
I invented the colour purple, and was the first man off the boats on the beaches of Normandy.

See I can make shit up too, just like you and whichever politician you get your info from.
 

redneck

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Australia is far from the wealthiest country on Earth, and the people affected by the fires are mostly struggling working class. No one asked for overseas money, and if you don't want to donate anything then don't. It's not the first time the Australian people has had to rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes, without a hand-out from others.

And RIP to the 3 US firefighters who died here in a helicopter crash. As a retired firefighter it breaks my heart.
 

Sheepdog

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Australia is far from the wealthiest country on Earth, and the people affected by the fires are mostly struggling working class. No one asked for overseas money, and if you don't want to donate anything then don't. It's not the first time the Australian people has had to rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes, without a hand-out from others.

And RIP to the 3 US firefighters who died here in a helicopter crash. As a retired firefighter it breaks my heart.
Lol at 'rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes'. Sounds like bad fan fiction.

And we are not 'far from the wealthiest country on Earth'. We have the 2nd highest median wealth, the 10th highest GDP per capita (and aside from the US, the other countries above us are all tiny countries with much lower overall GDPs) and the 14th highest GDP, but remember that this includes poor countries like Brazil and India.

Also, we have the added benefit of having a sovereign currency that is the 5th most traded in the world and internationally recognized strong institutions, meaning there is no risk at all from using defecit spending to fund responses to the emergency. Which is what we should be doing more of.
 

Rambo John J

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Australia is far from the wealthiest country on Earth, and the people affected by the fires are mostly struggling working class. No one asked for overseas money, and if you don't want to donate anything then don't. It's not the first time the Australian people has had to rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes, without a hand-out from others.

And RIP to the 3 US firefighters who died here in a helicopter crash. As a retired firefighter it breaks my heart.
was a plane out of Oregon I heard
was in local news
wonder if they forgo some of the safety checks and maintenance in situations like this
 

Jesus X

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I feel bad for the three american firefighters that died there is some extra level of nobility to dieing in a fire they didn't have to die in they could have been chilling in their fire station watching tv.
 
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I feel bad for the three american firefighters that died there is some extra level of nobility to dieing in a fire they did have to die in they could have been chilling in their fire station watching tv.
Feel bad for all of them?

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