Aside from the few lightening strikes that started some of the fires in Australia, it is alleged the rest of them were the result of arson and some of the arsonists were actually caught in the act and I’m sure I’m not the only one asking why anyone would want to deliberately set the country on fire?
A friend ,whose nephew is a fire fighter, told me his nephew had revealed that around 84 per cent of the fires ravaging the state of NSW were deliberately lit. They know this because of the way these fires happened. Because they did not follow the general pattern that fires follow and finished up by saying “Someone out there has an agenda, and they’ve put it into action.” That is a scary thing.
As expected, referrals to climate change have been doing the rounds, but lightening strikes cannot be attributed to climate change and arson certainly can’t, anymore than someone out there with an agenda can be linked to climate change. Unless that someone is at the extreme end of the climate debate and did something very stupid to force the issue. It wouldn’t be the first time a rabid extremist (individual or organisation, take your pick) has taken things into their own hands just to prove a point and force an issue or action, but if that’s the case here, we may not know about it for some time, if at all.
Unless someone talks. That is often how the crazies get caught. And it doesn’t take much. One too many beers and they decide to confide in their drinking buddy, or can’t resist the urge to big-note themselves, or one of their cronies lets the cat out of the bag and whichever the case, whoever they talked to dobs them in to the authorities. That’s how it generally goes down. I’m not necessarily talking firebugs here. Firebugs just set fires for the thrill of watching them burn. They don’t need an agenda, they just love fire. A climate change extremist on the other hand would see setting off a string of disastrous fires as a good way to force the Government to sit up and take notice, and implement the climate strategies the extremist individual or group believe should happen. Yes, that sounds completely over the top to suggest someone would go to such lengths to execute a deliberately calculated bushfire disaster and then attempt to pass it off as a natural climate change disaster just to say “I told you so!” , but show me a level-headed extremist and I’ll show you a vegan in a fast food outlet enjoying a beef burger and a milkshake.
But the bottom line is this, the majority of the fires devastating Australia were deliberately lit and I don’t give a rats about the perpetrators’ agenda. What they did was criminal, and the destruction of bushland, towns, homes, lives and the decimation of our native wildlife is beyond forgiveness. My dearest wish is that they are caught and incarcerated for a long time. There should be no other considerations here. People who deliberately do something like this should be taken out of the community and placed where they cannot do it again. Meanwhile, the fires are still raging.
It’s not over yet.