This is particularly a media narrative, but you see it all the time, now, in everything from officialdom to academia to “the news”…
Literally any “unusual” or “unseasonal” meteorological event, anywhere in the world, must be “climate change”…
Here in Aus they are trying to connect it to “indigenous seasonal calendars” and “racial justice”, to make it a woke issue, never mind, of course, their largely failed attempts to rope in the Pacific Islanders…
It never bloody ends, hey? Especially with the once-again useless COP on, right now…
My city’s mayor, who somehow just won re-election, is currently on a ratepayer-funded trip to that conference, because she is a Green, and of course she isn’t gonna miss another “Green junket”…
It’s just crazy, this whole thing. Not, admittedly, quite as crazy as “the gender wars”, which we all know about, but man… EVERYTHING is a never-ending apocalypse to the left, even without their whole “democracy in danger” rhetoric, lately…
*Also bush/wildfires, of course…
Forgot to call that specific one out, lol.
If it’s not one thing, it’s the exact opposite, and yet both are supposedly “climate change”. Which is, I suppose, both the problem, and my point…
Yep. Trust me, I know all this.
The eucalypts that now cover large parts of California, intentionally or otherwise, come from here, after all…
Most standard “gun trees”, and indeed, probably most iconic Australian “bush” trees, are exactly as you describe…
However, because of all the bullshit in Australia around “cultural burning”, you tend to end up with a “three stage consultation process with Indigenous elders” before you can even start clearing the undergrowth on public land…
Never mind the fact that the Abos denuded large parts of the landscape, by setting fire to it fairly arbitrarily…
Anyway, all this is to say, it’s complex, and is made worse by both the woke nanny state and bureaucracy, drought, growing the wrong plants, and, as you say, both droughts and fire bug scum…
I’ve grown up in a place with a history of said fire bug scum regularly setting fire to shit, so trust me, I know. I can affirm all that you have said. It’s really not that different over here, quite honestly…
"Gum trees" - so named because of their distinctive sap.
I think it's safe to assume that Bambi here probably knows how to spell the vulgar names of the common flora and fauna of his homeland. It's also highly unlikely he's using a Dvorak keyboard, so 'm' and 'n' are adjacent.
Yes, as pointed out by multiple others, that’s clearly a typo, lol. It was 4am, and autocorrect was probably involved…
I didn’t actually know the sap was the reason, though, so there you go…
That’s interesting!