A LEADING environmentalist has warned land developers might benefit from a proposed study to map out Nillumbik’s Green Wedge. […] Geoff Mosley said the proposed landscape character assessment study could weaken the now-strict Green Wedge environmental zone because it would look at parts of the zone, rather than the importance of the whole area.
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Dr Mosley, of Hurstbridge, said the money would be better spent educating people about the value of the Green Wedge as “the lungs of Melbourne”.
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. “We wanted trees cut down on the side of the road … and you can’t even cut the grass for God’s sake.”
Iain Hall notes they were duly warned;
One of Australia’s leading bushfire experts, Rod Incoll, warned Nillumbik Shire Council in a 2003 report that it risked devastation if it went ahead with changes to planning laws proposed by green groups that restricted the removal of vegetation.
Mr Incoll, the Victorian fire chief from 1990 to 1996, and David Packham, a former CSIRO bushfire scientist and academic who also produced a report on the issue, argued against the regulations, which actively encouraged the builders of new homes to plant trees around the houses for aesthetic reasons.
Mr Incoll told The Australian yesterday the proposed planning rules were “foolhardy and dangerous and ought not to be proceeded with”.
“But they were nevertheless instituted,” he said. “That is certainly one of the things that people will be looking at as an aftermath of this tragic event.”
Mr Packham, now an honorary senior research fellow at Monash University’s school of geography and environmental science, wrote in his report, after inspecting the Kinglake to Heidelberg Road: “The mix of fuel, unsafe roadsides and embedded houses, some with zero protection and no hope of survival, will all ensure that when a large fire impinges upon the area a major disaster will result.”
Mr Incoll said that in 2003, green groups were pushing for changes to planning laws that included restrictions on the removal of vegetation, “and worse still, the requirement for planting vegetation around and almost over houses, as part of any planning permit to build a house in the shire of Nillumbik, so it gave the appearance from the outside of being a forest“.
Tell me, my dear “green” lurkers – how many more people do you plan to kill to advance your agenda?
Before you respond, let me clarify that I’m not interested in a rebuttal.
I want a number.
The number they would accept for the Shire of Nillumbik is probably around 59,792.
I want a number.
350,00 per day – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
4 billion – Paul Ehrlich
95% – Ted Turner
100% – David Foreman
No word on whether those numbers include Cousteau, Ehrlich, Turner or Foreman; somehow I doubt it since none of them have led by example.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund28.html
If the leftist greenies are consistent then they must agree with the following,
Universal healthcare/modern medecine should be stopped right now.
here is why,
Centuries ago before we had universal healthcare and modern medecine people used to die from minor injuries that would get infected or bleed to death et cetera…
centuries ago a mother would lose about half of her children from disease or accidents,
centuries ago about one in three woman would die from complication of giving birth, et cetera…
Every time universal healthcare/modern medecine
saves a human life, that is one more human that can go out there and not only “destroy mother earth” but who can reproduce and populate the planet even more with new people who will consume ressources, “destroy” planet earth and reproduce…and so on and so forth…
Leftist-greenies must then agree with this;
If humans are bad for the planet, then saving human lives is bad.
Modern medecine and universal healthcare ( and alternative medecine for that matter…if any of it actually works… ) are bad for the planet because they help in making human populations grow larger and should be banned.
Universal health care and modern medecine should be stopped right now.
Any lefty-greenie wants to comment on this?
Heh, good one Piper.
dp; How would you explain the war canoes of, say, the Haida peoples let alone their totem poles?
Greeners believe in population reduction. So a handful of deaths from fire won’t have them shedding any tears.
They also believe that they are the all-knowledgable ones who understand nature better than the earth itself. They sit in their urban condos and make up “solutions” for all of earth’s ills.
Too bad for nature.
Islam group urges forest fire jihad
Josh Gordon
September 7, 2008
AUSTRALIA has been singled out as a target for “forest jihad” by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.
This is from an article I had saved.
Interesting how the leftie eco-terrorists work with the jihadists. They set up the conditions and the jihadis strike the match.
More than a little troubling how governments in the semi-free west go along with it – against all common sense.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real population control.