No fuel means no fire
THE May 2019 federal election was a referendum on climate change, because Labor said so.
The people voted with a resounding “no”. They rejected Labor’s so-called science of man-induced climate change.
For decades, to fit their climate change narrative, the Labor/Greens have locked up all the state forests and prevented any hazard-reduction burns.
They neglected all the fire breaks and fire trails through our highly flammable eucalyptus forests.
They penalised our farmers for acting to prevent bushfires. The resultant buildup of fuel ensured that any fires started by lightning strikes, arson or accident would be catastrophic.
Any primary-school student of average intelligence knows that fire needs fuel. No fuel means no fire.
The Greens and other climate alarmists seem not to have grasped this basic fact.
Now that the Green folly has been exposed, with all the resultant tragedies, have those same Greens and other climate alarmists acknowledged the tragic result of their actions in locking away that eucalyptus time-bomb?
On the contrary, they and their ABC cheer-squad are directing the blame for the bushfires at “climate change” and Prime Minister Morrison. This is not merely stupid; it is deliberately dishonest.
Do the Left and “our” ABC still regard the May 2019 election as a “referendum on climate change” or do they expect the rest of us to forget? NEIL MUNRO, Toowoomba
Why no protest?
THE Middle Ridge Golf Course has started the development of its retirement village.
Given the location why isn’t Chris Meibusch and Kerry Shine jumping up and down about the proximity to koala habitat?
Indeed why isn’t Graham Higgins and his TEABAG organisation not tearing their hair out in frustration about the lack of the three tiers of government poking their noses into this development in the so called Toowoomba Catastrophic Fire Zone or TCFZ?
How will you get all the residents out in a time of bushfire that is going to wipe out everything east of Mary St and by extension Ramsay St in South Toowoomba and possible Ruthven St to the north?
Why isn’t Alison Fearnley super gluing herself to the Golf Course Club House? Where are the Extinction protesters? Surely there is enough leather in the golf bags and shoes worn by golfers to warrant some kind of save the cattle protest?
They might even have animal protein on the menu?
Of course the bushfires near Sydney are out so all the climate change protesters and hangers on are having a period of rest until the next full moon on March 10. JOHN FRIEND, Toowoomba
Climate emergency
MR FRIEND (TC, 2/1), all levels of government should treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is.
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record.
We are still living through the worst drought in living memory, a continuing catastrophic bushfires and the effects of the Townsville floods that killed 500,000 cattle.
Global heating intensified these events and if we continue to use fossil fuels at the current rate, the world will heat to a point where most humans won’t be able to survive.
Solutions exist now and the UN says the only thing holding us back is political will.
Germany shut down the coal industry in the Ruhr Valley in 2017 without sacking a single worker.
Google Carbon Fee and Dividend Australia to find out about a levy that returns money directly to the people.
Stop using straw man arguments and start advocating for something useful, like bipartisan evidence-based climate action. My daughter and her generation deserve better. ALISON FEARNLEY, Toowoomba
SURELY THERE IS ENOUGH LEATHER IN THE GOLF BAGS AND SHOES WORN BY GOLFERS TO WARRANT SOME KIND OF SAVE THE CATTLE PROTEST?