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History is doomed to repeat itself

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History is doomed to repeat itself

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gazing_the_sea@reddit

100 years to mature my ass, it can take under 10 years and they will be ready to be harvested for the paper industry
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Gravesh@reddit

I've seen this discussed before. This is a myth. California has always had wildfires. It's just gotten worse because of climate change.
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Zesty-Lem0n@reddit

Probably also farming and damming practices. Diverting billions of gallons (or however much) of water per year for plants that will get harvested and shipped across the country is effectively removing water from the local ecosystem. And then the downstream of every dam gets reduced to a trickle and the entire river valley / delta loses moisture.
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Emergency_Bee521@reddit

Yeah I’d never looked at it this way, but lack of soil moisture is a massive driver of fire. How much moisture effectively gets ‘stolen’ from nature due to water collection is maybe measurable but not sure how.  Think in some specific locations it’d be more than others. Probably not insignificant, though it’ll be a hard sell to any country to deliberately wind back it’s agricultural industry.
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Demonvoi_@reddit

Has to import water to sustain the ever growing population as forests are removed and deserts grow The fault is climate change
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critsalot@reddit

deserts arent growing. calfornias just built where they shouldnt have. homes right next to hills which have always burned. its population not climate change.
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GmoneyTheBroke@reddit

Not just climate change, idiots who think touching nature at all make wildfires worse
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

The root ball of the eucalyptus varieties that would be in California are located underground so they can regrow after bushfires. Indigenous Australians used the weather when back burning. They would also incorporate hunting into this. They would chase a mob of kangaroos into a trail that is inaccessible on the sides, forcing them in one direction. Once in the neck, they would start a grass fire, using the wind the push the fire through the valley. The animals that escaped the fire would be claimed by the group on the other side who were waiting to spear them. Aboriginal Australians knew how to manage the land.
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Cheesyduck81@reddit

Back burning is making the bushfires worse if not done correctly. [https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prescribed-burning-could-be-making-aussie-forests-more-flammable](https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prescribed-burning-could-be-making-aussie-forests-more-flammable)
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Dr_barfenstein@reddit

Modern backburning (assuming you’re referring to prescribed burns) is a lot different to how the first people here did it.
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Emergency_Bee521@reddit

Yep, too many people seem to not recognise that ‘prescribed burns’, ‘hazard reduction burns’, ‘cultural burns’ and ‘back burns’ are not the same thing and so they use the terms interchangeably when they’re really not.
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

So, this is a part of my job. You’re wrong just fyi. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Bill-Gammage-Biggest-Estate-on-Earth-9781743311325 Read that and get back to me.
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Cheesyduck81@reddit

That book is pure fiction. He’s romanticised the indigenous culture to the point it’s fantasy. There was no wide scale land management it is far more likely to be small and localised. If they had to burn a forest to catch a couple of kangaroos that’s only an effective strategy once every 2 years.
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HauseClown@reddit

Damn, are they still using this method today, or did they figure out grocery stores?
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

Be cool if they did. Kangaroo steak is fucking good gym food.
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SuspiciousLettuce56@reddit

Was in the middle of buttfuck nowhere about 6 hrs outside Sydney, went into woolies to get a salad kit for $5 cus I had no money. Found a pack of roo steaks for $4 and instantly bought it, went to my hotel and made the greatest meal I've ever cooked solo. Still don't know where to get roo inside Syd tho
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Brother_Grimm99@reddit

A fuckin true superfood that as an Aussie I'm absolutely baffled we don't capitalise on more. Roos are actually considered a pest here so if you have the right licence you can get paid to go onto people's properties and just shoot them for control reasons but because they're a national animal, that for some reason means we shouldn't farm them. Seriously though, super high in protein, low in fat, and tasty as fuck if you cook it right. Great for dogs to eat too since it's so lean.
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mostie2016@reddit

Ausbros are winning
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Heyguysimcooltoo@reddit

No shit? Somehow ive gone 44 years without thinking about eating one (American) or even knowing you could eat them lol
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Res_Novae17@reddit

I'm picturing a man eating a kangaroo, and that picture is Joe Rogan.
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SpadeGrenade@reddit

Your picture of a man is a manlet like Rogan?
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gr1mm5d0tt1@reddit

Bolognaise with roo mince is lit
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charcoallition@reddit

Ok Action Bronson
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Manner_Mann@reddit

Bolognese
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

Kangasnags and mash. You know what’s up.
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GreiBird@reddit

I'm a fan of using the sausages for Kanga Banger Sangas.
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secretSalamander69@reddit

Only half the words y'all are saying are real
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a_small_loli@reddit

old mates sayin this while typin y'all with a straight face
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gr1mm5d0tt1@reddit

You’ve never punched a dart behind the bottle o halfway through a maccas run in your tracky dacks have ya?
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12345CodeToMyLuggage@reddit

You spied the right bogan
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secretSalamander69@reddit

Probably not but I kinda want to now
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I_am_Reptoid_King@reddit

Be me. Australian. Go to McDonald's for a tasty beef burger. Seems kinda off today. Find out on the news later that McDonald's was adding kangaroo meat to the beef. Go again the next day and get an extra burger.
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JohnnyBMediocre@reddit

Roo jerky is best jerky
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Nuked0ut@reddit

U can buy it at stores down undah
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AltwrnateTrailers@reddit

Does it have more protein or something?
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Jiveturtle@reddit

Yes each gram of protein is 1.3 grams
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

Lean, good fats, protein = 💪
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weiry3@reddit

we still practice backburning where all the dry tinder gets burnt in a controlled environment so when it does get to summer there is less chance of fires breaking out
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teremaster@reddit

Also because of the Aboriginals spending 40000 years setting fire to the bush, most of our native flora requires fire to survive. Pretty sure at least one species of Eucalyptus requires fire to germinate it's seeds. So even without bushfires being a thing, backburning is required for a healthy bushland
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harbourwall@reddit

Didn't NSW ban it because they know best and now have lots of wildfires?
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The_Knife_Pie@reddit

“Gets to summer”. Yeah, like summer ever truly ends at this point.
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hphp123@reddit

they don't, Australia had massive bush fires a few years ago
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magungo@reddit

Yeah, they figured out you could backburn grocery stores after the saw some Americans riot.
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Steebin64@reddit

I believe the convicts have a commissary now. Can't speak for the natives though.
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Pandelein@reddit

Nowadays most folks just hit the roos with a ute.
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Pervy_Russian_Bot@reddit

They still use fire to hunt goannas in central and northern Australia.
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angus22proe@reddit

Yeah the government does it from time to time
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gbuub@reddit

They came to America and tried this method to eat the rich
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LazaerDerewal@reddit

Which is why all the native megafauna went extinct shortly after the Aborigines' arrival, suspiciously close in time to records of massive burnings across the continent. They sure managed that land alright! Too bad for the animals.
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shinigamipls@reddit

I mean, the megafauna was fucking giant land crocodiles (Quinkana) and the equally giant megalania, a 7m long lizard with venomous razor teeth. I can understand why they didn't want to coexist with them. It's not like we Europeans did much better, see: Tasmanian Tiger. Oh and we also hunted the Aboriginal people of Tasmania to extinction.
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

I went to a healing ceremony at cape grim where the van diemen land company sealers ran women and children off cliffs while they massacred them. Used the same clubs they hunted for fur with to bash in the skulls of babies. Still makes me sad.
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shinigamipls@reddit

I didn't downvote you? And yes it's absolutely horrific, I grew up in *very* regional Australia and have heard so many stories from elders, the good and the terrible, about the way they were treated by Europeans.
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

Not you bro, some other shitheads.
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SpottedWobbegong@reddit

There's a historical novel called English Passengers which is set in the period, it's really sad and brutal.
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Spudtron98@reddit

Megafauna on *every* continent went extinct shortly after human arrival. Only the African ones survived with any meaningful amount of diversity because they evolved alongside humans and could cope with them.
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aVarangian@reddit

Afaik Africa is just huge and was much less densely populated by humans
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John_isnt_my_name@reddit

Except that’s not really how that works, and we’ve found Hominins (Humans and their ancestors) in almost every place in Africa. Why would Africa have fewer people on it than NA which had people for about 9000 years between colonization periods instead of MILLIONS of years
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

The fuck are you on about lol? You know what happened around that time period too that may have effected things a little more than sustained back burning? The end of the Holocene inter-glacial period. Pinecone.
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ExtremeCreamTeam@reddit

affected* Cabbage.
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LazaerDerewal@reddit

Right, humans are considered the main instigators of the megafaunal extinction in North America after they arrived, but how silly of me, the Aborigines in Asurralia lived in perfect harmony with nature and couldn't have contributed to the death of any of the megafauna. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna Modern researchers, including Tim Flannery, think that with the arrival of early Aboriginal Australians (around 70,000~65,000 years ago), hunting and the use of fire to manage their environment may have contributed to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Increased aridity during peak glaciation (about 18,000 years ago) may have also contributed, but most of the megafauna were already extinct by this time.[citation needed] Others, including Steve Wroe, note that records in the Australian Pleistocene are rare, and there is not enough data to definitively determine the time of extinction of many of the species, with many of the species having no confirmed record within the last 100,000 years. They suggest that many of the extinctions had been staggered over the course of the late Middle Pleistocene and early Late Pleistocene, prior to human arrival, due to climatic stress.[4] Think before you speak buddy. Or do a little reading at least.
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Laiko_Kairen@reddit

He's turning the aboriginals into noble savages. It's a dumb, backwards thing people in civilization do - - they fetishize native beliefs and cultural practices, and treat those groups not as people but as concepts. There are plenty of examples of native peoples fucking up their environments. Easter Island got deforested and the environment was ruined. There are countless sites around California where native Americans depleted clams and shellfish, due to overconsumption. But you know, they're "natives" (doesn't really matter where they're native to) so of course they're seen as being one with nature
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

That’s a cool opinion to have for a queer yank to have on a concept they have no understanding of. 👍 I’ll let my Wurundjeri mob know that you think the and I’m sure they’ll take it into consideration. Thanks again for your input.
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posting_drunk_naked@reddit

You people really just can't stop obsessing over other people's genitals. You really thought you'd get taken seriously when you brought it up in a conversation about climate, didn't you? It's just normal to you to worry about genitals and you're completely surprised by all the mockery. Hilarious every time. You freaks need to get a hobby or something.
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Laiko_Kairen@reddit

What does me being queer have to do with anything? Anyway, I didn't invent the idea of the noble savage. Tacitus (author of Agricola) apparently minted the idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage If you want to argue that westerners don't view natives as noble savages, you're gonna have to argue over 2000 years worth of evidence. /shrug
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FinestCrusader@reddit

No bro the Aborigines like just feel the pulse of like Mother Earth and shit. They'd never hurt a fly.
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Julzbour@reddit

> contributed Not caused. >not enough data to definitively determine the time of extinction of many of the species >many of the extinctions had been staggered over the course of the late Middle Pleistocene and early Late Pleistocene, **prior to human arrival** >New evidence based on accurate optically stimulated luminescence and uranium-thorium dating of megafaunal remains suggests that humans were the ultimate cause of the extinction for some of the megafauna in Australia.**[5]** That paper, has nothing to do with humans, a quick glance at the summary states: "A rich source of fossils recently discovered in caves beneath the arid, treeless Nullarbor Plain of western Australia offers a rare glimpse of life in the continent in the Middle Pleistocene (between around 800,000 and 200,000 years ago), **long before humans arrived."** Also love how you leave out the very next phrase: >However, these results were **subsequently disputed**, with another study showing that 50 of 88 megafaunal species have no dates postdating the penultimate glacial maximum around 130,000 years ago >only firm evidence for overlap of 8-14 megafaunal species with people But sure, your theory is complety correct in a field of science where it isn't a settled matter. You know best.
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Sweet_Habib@reddit

Yep. Now take all that bullshit you’ve quickly copied and pasted, assess it against what I said was happening during the transition out of the Holocene period and how that effected the pressure zones that persist in Aus currently and that ties into bushfires and the change from a tropical to a temperate climate. Or are you so far fucked in the head, that you think several hundred nomadic tribes of roughly 50 tops managed what modern industrialists are only starting to manage? I understand you want to be a contrarian despite that facts, but you don’t know what you’re taking about.
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Jesus__of__Nazareth_@reddit

What kind of shitty contrarian, basically racist comment is this? Every other band of early humans around the world also killed off tons of their megafauna except maybe in Africa. What's your actual point? That you don't like Aboriginal people? Pointless.
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ExtremeCreamTeam@reddit

Y'all MFs need to learn about mutual exclusivity. We're talking about Australia here, so *gasp* the particular Australian natives are the ones to be talked about. If this was about Canada instead, we'd be talking about Canada's natives. It's not that fucking hard.
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Ap0logize@reddit

Imagine being a kangaroo, chilling with your mob and some indigenous Australians force you to like one direction
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uvT2401@reddit

> Aboriginal Australians knew how to manage the land. Also they managed to produce pretty quality sniffing fumes this way
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Volt_Marine@reddit

The eucalyptus tree literally needs fire to germinate lmao
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Malgioglio@reddit

I always thought eucalyptus protected against fire😳
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Slimcognito808@reddit

They're flanking with the Emu cavalry units
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FemboyZoriox@reddit

Eucaluptus trees arent even in socal, theyre ip in nocal mostly 😭
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VolatilePassion@reddit

All the smoke from the fire probably improved the air quality
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gasp_@reddit

Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trees into a landfill where they're going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.
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The_Salacious_Zaand@reddit

Give LA that nice smoky burning trash smell.
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gfolder@reddit

Everyone was very laxed and in a therapeutic mood
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SweetTooth275@reddit

Aussies really do their part in making US a better place.
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NorthOrAbort@reddit

At least now they have the chance to rebuild it with some better infastructure. Maybe even a working subwaysystem and citylines dont look like a mess.
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Demopan-TF2@reddit

Ausbros keking over this https://preview.redd.it/qanx3ynq5wbe1.jpeg?width=662&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee1ae3cb601d94118f8eb61b8276310e02d2429
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Pingushagger@reddit

Why are they upside down?
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COINLESS_JUKEBOX@reddit

Because the water spins the other way over there
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Andrelse@reddit

Because they're in Australia, duh
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The-White-Dot@reddit

"Cawl that a boosh fire?!"
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Rigidsteel2@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/b0czv3p4hybe1.jpeg?width=662&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=928ed18a6b0bc10d4bad30596a4e7a1b467b073c *Fixed*
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Need_More_Boost@reddit

Came here to say, clearly not from Aus it's the wrong way up (and there isn't enough spiders)
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Thin-Concentrate5477@reddit

Son of a bitch made me spit out water all over my keyboard
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Spoonfulofticks@reddit

Bogans..
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MRflibbertygibbets@reddit

Hey! How’d you get into my webcam?
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lmay0000@reddit

Your webcam is behind your monitor guy
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destroyerOfTards@reddit

How did you get my monitor guy?
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MRflibbertygibbets@reddit

Yeah nah, that’s my other one for when I want to get up and dance
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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

A spider is taking the picture
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HATECELL@reddit

Silly west coast people. Just plant some Kudzu so it grows over those trees and smothers them
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Voldemosh@reddit

Can't believe America didn't try this with Vietnam. Amateurs.
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WaffleIronMadness@reddit

Who says we didn’t? It’s only been fifty years.
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ToXiC_Games@reddit

Playing the long Con.
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Voldemosh@reddit

Ahhh the ol electric boogaloo gambit
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WaffleIronMadness@reddit

The best revenge is served cold, Charlie.
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PotatoesAndChill@reddit

Idk man, wildfires seem pretty hot to me
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whitewail602@reddit

We're recalling all US pho restaurants, Sammy.
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XerAlix@reddit

Don't know why this actually sent chills down my spine
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Mesarthim1349@reddit

We did. Just with McDonald's and not trees.
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el_legal@reddit

But McDonald's kinda flopped in Vietnam...
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KaiFireborn21@reddit

When the trees start speaking australian english
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Voldemosh@reddit

Fucks scarn awn m8
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icedragon71@reddit

Farknnn caaarrnntt.
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Jeweler_Mobile@reddit

We don't think THAT far ahead
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the_marxman@reddit

It was quicker just to spray poison on everything and then burn it all.
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cseduard@reddit

there are eucalyptus trees in vietnam, although they've only been there about 25 years. almost every country on the coast in the world is growing these.
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YinYangTang@reddit

Fell for the oldest trick in the book
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GemeenteEnschede@reddit

This just sounds like long term biological warfare.
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Meister_Retsiem@reddit

it's pronounced "wahh-fehh"
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Przedrzag@reddit

Nah mate, its “waauugh-feeaaa”
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DazedPhotographer@reddit

WAAAAGHHH!!!!
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Soffix-@reddit

Aur naur I cont believe he 'nounced it wrang
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schizochode@reddit

The Longest Troll
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ImmortalGoat66@reddit

Revenge for the cane toads tbh
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Fecal-Facts@reddit

Upsidedown people played the long game.
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ThrowAbout01@reddit

“Our plans are measured in centuries.”
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H-Adam@reddit

Is this actually what happened??
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-NoNameListed-@reddit

Legislation also contributed. They knocked down 5 dams which held the reservoirs that fire departments used for water, and they cut the fire department budgets by MILLIONS, meaning they couldn't even organize controlled burns. California was doomed ever since Lake Tulare was drained to make housing
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batmansthebomb@reddit

Important to note that the decrease in MILLIONS is only a 2% decrease because the LAFD budget is almost $1 billion.
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Cyhawk@reddit

> If a 2% decrease in budget means the fire department can't effectively organize, something is very wrong. If you've been cutting critical services for decades every single year, a 2% drop can lead to, well whats happening right now.
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batmansthebomb@reddit

Except that the majority of the funding still went to..... essential services.
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VicisSubsisto@reddit

> guess who often gets called to deal with homeless medical and mental crisises? Flaming eucalyptus trees?
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TwistedBamboozler@reddit

Leaving out key facts to spin your point. Nice
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-NoNameListed-@reddit

Leaving out the fact that everyone leaves out facts to spin their points to spin your point? Nice. In all seriousness though, there's still serious problems with California, strawman or not.
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H-Adam@reddit

Oh well… at least they solved homelessness… right?
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t0ppings@reddit

No, and in general don't believe anything you read in a greentext lol
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400asa@reddit

what is the repeating motif here ? It's just a story that takes a hundred years to unfold. Anon has smoked the eucalyptus leaves it seems.
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reallygreat2@reddit

What did they want the trees for?
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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit

No, ITs cLiMatE ChAnGe!!!! https://preview.redd.it/b1qvqwr6hwbe1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=6df4432329551dca7efcafc5bca2930af4f5215c
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RoboticGoose@reddit

It actually takes ~20 years for them to fully mature. Dont believe everything on the internet
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vjmdhzgr@reddit

Me when I ignore extremely clear scientific evidence (it's okay, oil companies paid 2 scientists to say the others ones are wrong)
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Res_Novae17@reddit

The difference in humidity held by air that is two degrees warmer is not sufficient to cause uncontrollable wildfires. This is from overbuilding, poor risk maintenance, and bad luck.
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WashYourEyesTwice@reddit

I genuinely haven't seen Greta Thunberg is years
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The_HyperDiamond@reddit

It was her birthday like a week ago, other than that no clue what she does anymore. She's not the medias punching bag that's for sure, too many clowns too go around these days.
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RevalMaxwell@reddit

Israel/Palestine started and suddenly the world isn’t going to end in 5 years
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LamerGamer1216@reddit

because we will end from WW3 instead :D /s
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MalekithofAngmar@reddit

Eucalyptus is a nasty fuckin tree too.
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KrasnyRed5@reddit

Talk about playing the long game.
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Winter_Low4661@reddit

Need to import some koalas to deal with that.
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summerofkorn@reddit

The long con, thanks.
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NCR_High-Roller@reddit

Being an LA native amidst all this, I really only have one thought on the matter: *Red sun, red sun over paradise Red sun, red sun over paradise Golden rays of the glorious sunshine Setting down, such a blood-red light Now the animals slowly retreat to the shadows, out of sight Arid winds blow across the mountains Giving flight to the birds of prey In the distance, machines come to transform Eden, day by day Only love is with us now Something warm and pure Find the peace within ourselves No need for a cure When the wind is slow and the fire's hot The vulture waits to see what rots Oh, how pretty, all the scenery This is nature's sacrifice When the air blows through with a brisk attack The reptile tail ripped from its back When the sun sets, we will not forget the red sun over paradise*
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justamiqote@reddit

That's not really the cause of the wildfires though... Eucalyptus are horrible trees, but they're mostly used as ornamentals here. Wildfires typically start in our chaparral or scrubland because someone did something stupid and the wildfires get out of hand because of the insane dry cycles that have been hitting us lately.
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Monkey_Storm@reddit

You sure got us lol
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PepeBarrankas@reddit

> 100 years to mature OOP is highly regarded and has never seen an eucalyptus
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tortiesrock@reddit

They do not take 100 years to mature. They grow very fast which makes them perfect for the paper and plywood industry.
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sebastianinspace@reddit

is this why i’ve noticed so many eucalyptus trees in californian tv shows? i grew up knowing that gum trees are endemic to australia, and then in the last 10 years or so i’ve noticed them in photos and videos shot in california and i thought “maybe they have them there also?”
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ii_jwoody_ii@reddit

Last time i saw this greentext i was in high school
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JonPQ@reddit

Eucalyptus trees will fully mature under 10 years.
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drewfromthefuture@reddit

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2017/12/are-australian-eucalypts-to-blame-for-californias-wildfires/
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ZestyBeer@reddit

A lot of celebrity homes have also burnt down... Are they trying to purge evidence before Diddy comes to trial and brings the house down? 🤔
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hornwalker@reddit

If only they imported Koalas to keep the Eucalyptus population under control
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-NoNameListed-@reddit

There's already Chlamydia in California
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usernamalreadytaken0@reddit

And won’t we party hard when Cali goes ker-splunk into the ocean?
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Res_Novae17@reddit

I feel like 60 million humans just weren't meant to live in California.
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KtotoIzTolpy@reddit

Massive Aussie W
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maaaaawp@reddit

Based aussies
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Xenu66@reddit

You could say we do a little trolling 🇦🇺
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RonsonBonson@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/4r3hmg7yjwbe1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12696657ba116e9e460f829be543e1db9bebebf1
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uvT2401@reddit

I think California already has enough chlamydia
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Malvastor@reddit

\> tfw the drop bears have air superiority
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PotateJello@reddit

Also refuse to do any sort of control over the forest and just let it grow to an insane degree.
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HippoIllustrious2389@reddit

Yeah nah she’ll be right mate
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slothtolotopus@reddit

Yeah, nah, yeah...
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GrImPiL_Sama@reddit

Aussies played the slow game
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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

Same reason why I drink almond milk
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tsuchinokoDemon@reddit

What's gunna happen to you in 100 years?
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GrImPiL_Sama@reddit

Grow an almond tree from their beenis while laying dead in the grave
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tsuchinokoDemon@reddit

Mourning wood?
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SUPERSAM76@reddit

How did they convince anyone in the first place? Like what value does/did eucalyptus have? It doesn’t bear fruit?
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Desert_Aficionado@reddit

OP is shit posting. Eucalyptus was planted as a source of lumber and fire wood. From an 1871 publication: > "Of the Eucalypti, E. globulus is very common in California, and easily cultivated: it is the Blue Gum of Victoria and Tasmania. This tree is of extremely rapid growth and attains a height of 400 feet, furnishing a first-class wood; shipbuilders get keels of this timber 120 feet long; besides this they use it extensively for planking and many other parts of the ship, and it is considered to be generally superior to American Rock Elm." History of Eucalypts in California - https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr069/psw_gtr069_01_groenendaal.pdf
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Jombo1@reddit (OP)

I am indeed shitposting
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RandomPerson4644@reddit

Its actually a fast growing tree thats grown for wood and its oil among other things
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Gloxxter@reddit

Aussies just didnt want to be the only one to burn every time
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thermitethrowaway@reddit

Jokes on 'strayia though, nobody in LA is worried about their stuffy noses anymore
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MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit

That is actually funny as fuck.
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rageofa1000suns@reddit

Australia playing the long game troll.
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Pb86295@reddit

It’s because we don’t like them
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Finna-Jork-It@reddit

And nothing of value was lost
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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

Some Californian plants are adapted to benefit from fires, so at least some of them are being helped
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Maflevafle@reddit

Aussies playing the long game :)
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WistfulGems@reddit

Also gum trees need to burn to germinate and reproduce.
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AdamofSnakes@reddit

Aussies doing a little trollin
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