We are at a critical point in time when serious change to old practices needs to be refined, dropped, changed to a less token way of thinking and acting/performing…
We have been responsible for preservation of habitat and species with little regard to the complete health of the planet, atmosphere, habitat and human allergies/health.
Allowing it to degrade, recede. Concerned facades only….
Much of conservation to this time has been honest but cheap.
The next generation will not be so easily fooled as they are threatened by the gradual deterioration of the condition of our air, habitat, oxygen, health, oxygen pumps with all to this point treated a little to much as”Ah well” if we lose a bit of this and that it wont matter!!…Tokenism must recede with the coming of the brave and those really concerned with our health into the future rather than the get rich fatalists..
What price the future…
IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER
WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE…..WHERE THERE IS FIRE THERE IS SMOKE…WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS ILLNESS AND DEATH AND A COUGHING PLANET.
”AS THE EARTH BURNED, ALL CHOKED AND THE YOUNG DAMNED THE OLD AND FLED THE FUTURE”…
IN SUMMARY…
1…Phase out quickly the ”Burn at all costs ” mentality .
2…A new limited fire permit system…based on no burning at all. Only recreational/barbecue contained fire pits in the appropriate season. No burning off/fires at all. Rationalize wood fire heating and wood stoves..
3…Focus on mulch or composting, chipping machinery and other methods now in practise…expand this industry.
4…Fines, Jail, and property seizure for blatant damaging, unauthorised fire activity not within safety and smoke health/poison regulations/rationale. No unauthorised fires at all. Air quality standards breached.
5…New housing fire safe housing industry/style requirements.. Earth covered.
6…Bush and general land management training if owner of land or propose to own/manage land. Responsibilities to the land/Earth/ Planet/Living breathing life first.
7…Request or change the Cattle/Stock industry by finding and implementing appropriate earth friendly sustainable, healthy/plant/ human solutions.
The Sugar Cane industry HAS ALMOST STOPPED BURNING..AN IDEA CONSIDERED IMPOSSIBLE 25 YEARS AGO..
8…Teaching/understanding of the life and key purpose of vegetation on the land and seagrasses and plankton in the seas. The important role to ensure human health forever.
9…Health issues associated with fire and smoke as well as erosion, silting and toxic rivers and seas.
10…Ask the clever greedy and exploiters of the land to help find the solutions to healthy perpetuity.
11…Expand develop economic, industrial, commercial future around a sustainable planet and practices.
12…Develop new” green tip” methods excluding fire…that paddock/bush burns bring now…Goats/Mow others….roll over grazing.
13…Would you continue to promote QLD/AUSTRALIA as the most livible and holiday destination, sunny comfortable place on the planet ?…Then set it on fire creating an annual toxic smoke season…!!!
14…Stop this archaic practise before fringe and mainstream health issues cost all in the courts.
15…Native creatures and plants are lost and/or degraded with every burn..
16…Don’t develop fire control plans for /or with the fairies.
17…Some 95% of fires in Australia would not exist/happen if fires were not tolerated at all and practicing Pyromaniacs and Cowboy boofheads land owners did not burn off and jail, fines and property confiscation was normal and desirable. This practice is a death penalty to the earths equilibrium and a long choking death to many. Criminal……..
18…House designs in most fire prone areas now are a joke. History should view housing design change to fire safety with all other moderate sustainable/comfort safety considerations
19…Tourism will thrive on clean air, pure land and healthy waters……
20…Fires in National Parks and conservation reserves lead to high levels of soil erosion, loss of top soil..High levels of farm fertiliser washing into and contaminating rivers and the sea..Affecting and killing aquatic life and often producing blue/green algae.
21…Smoke chokes us fast or slowly with Carbon dioxide, ammonia dioxide, chlorine, Hydrogen cyanide, Carbon monoxide.
22… Controlled or other burns only benefit the few where all are effected by the slow degrading outcome of their health….
23…Much of the world is burning and ransacking their forests…the very/only lungs of the planet.
24…Bury us as it is the only nourishment the soil will receive when all the trees and creatures are gone we follow…and the soil is layed bare and stagnant.
25…Diminishing world forest/bush ratio…damned…Increased always by Pseudo Bushies and Farmers who are used to doing what they like for practice..The ”All about me” ignorance threat to the planet.
26…4000 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS IN SMOKE..
27…THE INDECENT REPUTATION WE HAVE…”We burn down the bush/forest so it doesn’t catch fire”….Something you would hear at a comedy show. Burning down the very things that provide us with the air we breathe to release the very poisons that can kill all of us!!!Who said we were clever…The insane civilization…BURN TO PREVENT FIRE MENTALITY…
28…BOUNDARY AND FRINGE CLEARING. SUITABLY LOCATED HOUSES/BUILDINGS. New housing systems for fire prevention/safety.
29…Only fires that happen naturally accepted and fire services prepare for them with greater safety systems for fire fighters. Ancillary systems for deliberate and accidental fires with criminal investigation.
30…Evolution of fringe illnesses associated with smoke aligned and cigarette outcomes. One in four people have respirtory problems in the world.
31…There are millions more people, dogs, built places , property, here on the planet now than there was to deal with 100 years ago…The rules have changed by the demand and excess use of everything.
32…Lost plants and creatures, animal species threatened by cats, dogs, foxes, humans, cane toads and fires.
33…Human arrogance will view archaic practices degrade human and planet health to suffering illnesses and one in four deaths.
34…Dont take my word check the maths and all the evidence of subtle degradation on a grand scale.
(I am bringing this to your attention for I am saddened with the degradation of the roof and floor of the planet…with all its amazing creatures, plants, places and delicate and powerful forces of great inspiration…as well as this civilizations great useful sustainable non conflicting journeys. The erosion can be subdued and bring comfort to all…refer ”Life is be ready” by Brian A Carter..digital print australia …refer book store.)
35…History has shown that impatient civilizations like ours do not last long…Let us trick the Gods…who have no faith in us either…!!!
36…If there is not 100% vegetation on the land and damaged seas increasing toxic carbon mixtures in our atmosphere we have to increase the trees/vegetation on the land to bring up the oxygen quantity and decrease the release of man released carbon into the atmosphere to develop a real healthy equilibrium, though fractured…must be the target…
37…Rob Messenger MP QLD in his report on Climate change…2xA4 newsletter sheets Aug 2011? Budget speech 2011!!!
Accusing Rob Oakshot MP of being a traitor for working for a healthier environment for future generations is big mouth bullying only. Rob supporting the Resource industry in avoiding their fair share of tax contributions is traitorous and typical.
38…If we are so clever we will bring desirable change easily…much work has already been done by millions already. All including the Tax dodgers and criminals must assist with remedial practices to balance the gradually degrading environment with the health of the planet for the sake of us all and a comfortable future.
39…It is only 65 years since my father tilled the soil with a horse drawn plough…A lot has changed since then and we adjusted to thousands of new ways of doing things and living…many of them toxic to us and the planet ,many very good…We are just consolidating now to planet sustainability…the biggest ever challenge but easily reached with wisdom , calm, patience and all responsible…for the planet and the sake of our health… Compared to what we have had to adjust to in the last 60 years, this urgent change will be a breeze…With clever adaption we will continue a strong consolidated economy as soon as possible given the current signs…Population retardation…otherwise catastrophe via anarchy and violence!!!Prohibit burning where not neccesary at all…
The continued practise of burning off must be phased out within the next 5 to 10 years…
It is an archaic practise considering only less than 27% of vegetation is left on the planet…
Earth plants, ocean plants and Plankton……the very important elements only that replaces toxic gasses from fires and many other damaging contaminants and human practise…..by feeding on them and producing pure oxygen for all life’s creatures in order to survive…
1…Real perpetual outcome desirable urgently…
A Modern ecosystem that establishes a stable total environmental equilibrium…
A scaled down ratio from 100% oxygen production to 100% safe Carbon storage from yesteryear to account for the fractured in-balanced environment that now exists. We have had the same air and water on the planet forever…It does not make more or find some from Mars and transport it here!! We are responsible for its quality and purity with our whiz bang technology…Some repair work to do… Bring the required healthy balance desirable between Carbon material/release/plunder/burn and oxygen production from millions of years of calm, patient,finite development and evolving life.
Previous 100% forest and grassland cover…healthy seas and rivers…Finely balanced pure oxygen.
Last 150 years tree cover reduction, damaged seas…Now super Carbon release developing toxic mix.
Now less than 27% vegetation cover, damaged seas increased release of Carbon into atmosphere from the earth via industry, agriculture/horticulture, timber, mining, transport, increased population by-product and burning.
A settled gentle down of greedy, impatient release of Carbon to improved increased absorption of Carbon by vegetation including plankton and sea and river grasses. Modify industry, agriculture to be Carbon limited/squashed/suffocated/held. Mining to be Carbon nullified with positive process.
Engines via Engine carbon deficient from fuel and fumes.
Improve housing design in fire prone areas…Why burn to build OR BUILD TO BURN??…Why burn down the forest that ensures the quality of the air we all breath …good health.
Probably 80% or more of the fringe diseases complaints to our health could be attributed to our poisoning of the atmosphere…the air we breathe..
I currently live in central Queensland and during the finest weather in the world they have here ….June to October…they set the place alight for archaic reasons and create the ”Smoke season” of Queensland so we rarely see the best of the sun in the smoke and choke/ cough and have serious problems with our throat, lungs and eyes, a major blight on the so called…Tourist season…Why would you pay good money to come to Queensland in the sunny season turned into the smoke season to have your lungs eyes and throat damaged by chemicals produced by ludicrous deliberate burning.
NATIONAL PARKS DELIBERATE BURNS TOXIFY THE AIR WE BREATHE FOR LONG PERIODS…WITH NO HEALTH CONCERN IN THIS AREA FOR NEIGHBOURS AND THE PLANETS LONG TERM HEALTH AS DO PYROMANIACS AND CHEAP BURN OFFS..
Progressively change practices to re-establish sustainable though ratio reduced equilibrium between all positive and negative forces. All are desirable in balanced spirit.
All must balance in reasonable time starting now…with selfish, impatience put aside.
Remember our Planet earth home is made up of toxic and other chemical and gaseous components…screw around with their safe connections and safe equilibrium and a creeping catastrophe will be upon us…Already the signal of creeping, silent pain is upon us……Man made.
2….THE ONLY CURRENT BENNEFICIERIES….OF ANY FIRE PARTICULARLY THOSE ON THE NORTH OF AUSTRALIA…
Regular burning off the same bush(2 to 4 years or less)… certainly in the North of Australia only benefits Cattle(Live Stock) fire freaks, pyromaniacs, an archaic culture benefitting a few inherent lazy land owners that burn often by shifty historic arrangement with fire and or National Parks officers it now often seems ….It cannot be in the name of good sense applied to the benefit of the planet and all who breathe oxygen and all who choke or burn to death in the perpetrators rush to ”Do it easy ” …………….quick, cheap but environmentally destructive degradation of all life and bio-diversity. Just as easy to be prosperous/comfortable with developed, consolodated, settled, balanced honest calm environment.
Re-growth after fires brings quick green tips of native grasses for cattle grazing and fattening..So does intense grazing by well managed goat herds and mowing!
THE BURNING BY-PRODUCT IS……………..
…Detriment to human health by smoke inhalation over long periods of several months with varying degrees of minimal to choking smoke suffering breathing difficulties, eye damage, respiratory issues. One in four people in the world suffer with painfull/life threatening respirtory health problems…
and probable cause of many fringe illnesses…building up by repeated unjustified annual burns and other damaging released chemical and dust contaminants into the atmosphere…
…Gradual reduction of wildlife species, ultimate loss of seed, plant species and wildlife habital including insect demise such as fireflies. Never a chance for full recovery which should be at least 25 years or never burn at all with only 27% or less of reasonably natural bush or Rainforest left.
…Cold burns kill nearly all non flying creatures…many lizards, Arthropods including important spiders, frogs, snakes, small rodents, many marsupials confused by it all and burning off in ridiculous places. Many other creatures seeking shelter in hollow logs, under rock and bark, long grass on the ground and confused by the fire. The creatures and plants do not get notification of intention to burn or are provided with a fire refuge…all guessing and hope.. What has happened to boundary burns clearing only rather than whole acreage/hectares as is now conducted?
The practise of dropping fire bombs from helicopters to burn out isolated small gullies that have not caught fire in an 8000 acre burn!!!….what bloody madness is that and who does that benefit, certainly not that delicate ecosystem..fighting to survive.. and plundered purposely by fire every 2 or 3 years..in the name of lunacy and ignorance…and grazing short term.
The Cattle/Livestock industry must find ways to provide alternative but less green tip growth without the archaic selfish habitat and health destroying, planet degradating current fire practices…I believe they can if the right people are approached…The whiz bangers may not be the ones with the answers..look to the pragmatists.
3….Why burn now?
The Aboriginal burns were modelled after thousands of years having learnt specific ways to help hunt for food with managed small fires…This was in a balanced equilibrium of 100% oxygen production with 100% carbon intake by plants, seagrasses/plankton and the soil…now all screwed up by this modern, impatient, greedy scheming but clever/dangerous Civilization/Dynasty..less the third of the worlds growing population that still try to live in balance with nature..
In Queensland and many other places the weather is promoted as the best in the world and yet, the Pyromaniacs with lazy farmers, ignorant land managers and easily corrupted Government Public National Parks, ARCHAIC CULTURE and other large forested or farmed land, burn off all or most as a fire break or environmental burn…in large numbers filling the atmosphere for several months with life threatening/choking smoke…In these times this practise is insane, ignorant and criminal…
The tourism industry…Yep come to the Commonwealth games in 2018 so we can choke you slowly in our smoke season…of bulk carbon, cyanide and other smoke generated poisoning of the air you will breathe..Watch the native creature and plant habitat being slowly eroded/suffocated and or burnt to death with many humans who live in these regions as well….Signs in National Parks saying ”No fires PERMITTED ”….please… then Management burns the whole fu%$#)(ng park almost to the ground!!!!!
All the illnesses from smoke inhalation are well documented plus many probable fringe illnesses or mainstream illnesses that will one day be atributed to smoke inhalation.We ban smoking cigarettes but burn the country whenever we can. You are highly overly stuffing around with the air we breathe…..
4….Tinder housing.
Being such a shit hot Dynasty you would think we would have insisted on ”Fire proof” housing in fire prone areas…No …we still fiddle with fire safe toys and gimmicks and allow building in these fire prone areas of Tinder dolls houses…even after such disasters as Ash Wednesday in Victoria and ”Black Saturday….Then we want all the bush removed or ”Cold burned to protect these weak f……g houses for temporary human residents…as we watch boofheaded humanity further encroach on the bush with their pampered pseudo…exploring by mistakes…. bushy mentality, little boxes and part time dogs and cats…The wildlife is then forced into decreasing habitat endorsed by authorities with little lateral vision and spine…My apologies to those who have actually acted for radical and sensible change…Wombats and many creatures who can go to ground in fire do so…Humans stay on the surface to save the timber dolls house…and fire fighters rush in to try and save ”Ticcy Tacky” homes in cyclonic firestorms..Earth covered homes or annexed underground, well provided fire retreats/cellars/ multi-purpose homes must be provided…I know one family didn’t believe in underground fire safe bunkers but built one anyway for their dope crop!!!The house should be big/creature and fire/flood proof..Vegies/Herbs chooks and fruit trees within solid cages to not create conflict and respect the creature and native plant rights. ”The Bushy” We build houses in the bush that are designed to burn…then we burn down the bush and forest so they wont!!!!!”
5….Historic burning.
We burn useing the main persistant excuse that ..”The Aboriginals did it”…They actualy did it to small areas to make it easier to hunt on small patches of fresh grazing areas…or burnt to drive the animals to them along well worn/known animal paths or burnt to retrieve killed or injured animals in the fire to eat straight away..Simple practices. That was also when 100% of vegetation on the land existed in its many and varied forms in perfect balance with Carbon ratios and equilibrium…The right amount of Carbon held in the ground, the vegetation and the sea as well as a minimal perfectly qualified amount in the atmosphere. A perfect machine body working to maintain the clean air that all breathing creatures require. How pristine it was…The smoke from such isolated fires quickly absorbed by the natural mechanisims provided…Now approximately only 27% vegetation left on the land and seas/plankton/seagrass beds badly damaged…and getting worse and under serious threat from the drilling and harvesting spread for short term(in the big picture)food and fuel resources with degrading/damaging outcomes inevitable to these fragile and part fractured paradisia/places..of gentle balance to us all. The Sugar Cane industry has almost phased burning right out…it can be done….it must be done with long Jail sentences and fines for unauthorised premeditated burning. Isnt it funny we have up to probable 100 000 burns a year Australia wide now if it was not permitted at all we would probably only have a thousand Australia wide by lightning and Pyromaniacs who would be removed from general society to gentling stations for many years to work for the community and country. (See Brians book ”Life is be ready” refer ”Digital print australia…refer Book store”)..Every time we burn some native species of plant and creature is degraded/reduced/elliminated and Habitat comprimised for Human fear and stupidity…
Pyromanics picked up on the simple burning practises of the Aboriginals and turned it into hoon games of lets burn the whole bloody place and get fresh grass tips for our stock as well as work our own adrenilin n have a few cans..!!!…AND IT DOES LOOK MUCH MORE LIKE MOTHER ENGLAND INSTEAD OF THAT USELESS BUSH!!!Get rid of those useless Kangaroos and the Aboriginals!!!..No thought ever given to the destructive force of fire/smoke and chemicals put into the atmosphere over short and long periods…
6…Tourism.
Who would wish to return to a State or Country boasting the best weather and sunshine seasons in the world…Then slowly choke them and fill the atmosphere with choking health damaging smoke for months at a time….The Japanese have a wonderful culture with others regarding their judgement of their visit to you…They do not criticize , they just never return and inform others of the same…Come to Queensland for the smoke season so we can slowly choke you…Sorry the wildlife is missing because we burnt it all last year..or its out in the smoke somwewhere…or I can show you a road kill…or the Pseudo bushies dogs and wild dogs killed them or chased them away. We have them in the wildlife park of stuffed in a Museum…Great areas of ”Burnt black”as the tourist attraction…
7…Carbon oxygen degrading ratio…Balanced ”Modern ecosystem” equilibrium desirable.
If you cut 70% of the roots off a tree/shrub and leave 100% of the trees leaves/canopy it will set it back badly and may even kill it…The tree will suffer badly and try desperately to regrow quickly so it can again enjoy a well balanced life of equal PARTS OF OXYGEN PRODUCING PRACTISE IN THIS CURRENT IMPATIENT DYNASTY OF REGULAR OVERSITE FOR GREED SAKE…we have the same dilemma …we are producing/releasing far more quantities of Carbon into the atmosphere than the oxygen producing pumps and storages can keep up with…It is probably 180% release of Carbon to only 20% exchange/intake of Carbon by trees/vegetation and seas and release to offset the overburden of Carbon release.. Like the tree we must fight to remedy the unequal damaging inbalance…Work to restore an equilibrium though fractured by modified lower ratio of both with natural and more clever use of shoddy/shifty degrading practices..Gentle down to restore health of all…Trees in the ground are the real foundation of recovery, not just environmental credits that only lie in the bank balance and stock market of many…Both together can work but without trees in ground ALL HEALTH LIKE THE TREE WITH ONLY 30% ROOTS ….we will struggle then shrivel up and die. History has proven that impatient , lazy, greedy civilizations like in place now fall over their folly…”All mistakes all started from a little fun!”
All this added to motor vehicle fumes, Aeroplane fumes, Industry fumes, Monoculture/farming dust, household contaminants, Mining fumes. Coal burning and the impatient rush for Uranium with many warnings of dangerous outcomes. Animal methane release by the millions…Millions of dog turds everywhere..7 BILLION HUMANS …..billions of farm stock giving off Carbon dioxide and methane…and the land being desertified..India has some 3 million natural aquifer wells. One million have already dried up and can’t replenish..as they filled during previous ice age. It takes 24 hours for a forest beside an airport to break down the gasses released from one plane upon take off…St Barde Baker 60 years ago…Finaly agreed to after 9/11 atmosphere tests when all Airports in America shut down for 48 hours..98 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE A HEAD ACHE EVERY DAY..at a cost of 97 billion dollars a year!!..How many attributed to air contaminants including smoke…???? Everything that ever went wrong or right started out as a bit of fun…!!!
We can be like the Aussie Skink as after disaster strikes they lose their tail for it to grow back again…We must grow our tail back…our lost purity before it is all consumed by our boofheaded, f…wit, greedy mistakes…
Building our economy around the perpetual health of the planet…Many good works accomplished already…
8…Legal action.
Soon someone or as a class action will sue authorities or property owners for degrading their health…I have a smoke effected throat from 8000 hectares of 22000 hectares Eurimbula National park Central QLD being burnt recently having been burnt not that long before…….over many weeks to months Aug /Sept/Oct…everywhere…could not escape it. I left my place when it was real bad to drive 250 ks to Rockhampton only to be told it was just as bad all the way North….Very little understory and isolated gullies fire bombed which would have had to have been for practice only….Quick green tip growth for the Cattle owning lessee immediately…Whats going on here?…Time for change of culture and practice. Weed problems still spreading with cattle/stock in National parks /Conservation Zones. Bloody unjustifiable…
9….Fringe illnesses.
One in four people in the world suffer with respirtory problems..Hay fever,Emphysema, Asthma, eye irritations all associated with respirtory complaints… ? many more known complaints and many more unclear fringe complaints probably attributed to contaminants of many sorts and we add to this concoction by burning the land to prevent fires adding more dangerous chemicals into the air including cyanide…..and Carbon Dioxide that belongs in the soil, the vegetation and the green plants of the sea…Build up of smoke toxins in the throat..monster eye irritations and following damage to the eyes…blindness..Glasses…lost livelyhoods.
Ninety eight million Americans have a headache each day at a cost of ninety eight billion dollars…how many are from smoke related conditions and other contaminants in the atmosphere..Probably more than 80%.
10…Constant degrading of habitat….
Recovery from fire is never whole, complete or fully recovored before it is purposely burnt again….With dogs, cats, foxes, humans and now Cane toads , add fire to that and a bloody idiot would know that it is never going to be the same again…The forest/bush gradually loses vulnerable, weak, exposed species of everything with constant attack…from human imposed scheming indignity, token effort to save the bush…All is still eroding and human moronic creeping destruction continues and always will in a ”Economic growth” civilization…The end result of forever growth is a big ”Nothing”….
11…Gradually build the economy around ”The good health of the planet.
Phase out quickly ..5 to 15 years…. all human health and planet degrading practices….Life is all we have…The planet provides the resources and is the key to the health of all life…Governments do not…the Government and big business only increase our comforts/mainly theirs in the short term as history has proven…Let us bless the natural planet every day for what it provides and ensure its desirable healthy co-existance with all of us…Be clever…but provide many productive repercusions(The Modern Ecosystem)…Burning off would have one maybe two good by-products for a few but at least a hundred damaging by-products for all….
12…Chemicals in smoke and fire.
There are 4000 compounds in smoke ..Chemicals released and breathed in are Cyanide, Sulphur dioxide, Ammonia, Hydrogen chloride, Chlorine and Carbon monoxide as well as Carbon Dioxide…Combustion can result in the formation of chemicals that cause direct injury when they contact the skin and mucous membranes.
These substances disrupt the normal lining of the respirtory tract. This disruption can potentially cause swelling, airway collapse and respirtory distress.
Chemical asphyxiants.
A fire can produce compounds that do damage by interfering with the bodies oxygen use at a cellular level.
Carbon monoxide, Hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulfide are all examples of chemicals produced in fires that interfere with the use of oxygen by the cell during the production of energy..
If either the delivery of oxygen or the use of oxygen is inhibited, cells will die.
Carbon monoxide poisoning has been found to be the leading cause of death in smoke inhalation.
Smoke inhalation symptoms
Numerous signs and symptoms of smoke inhalation may develop. Symptoms may include cough, shortness of breath, hoarseness, headaches, and acute mental status changes. (4 MILLION PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA WITH MENTAL ILLNESS.)
Signs such as soot in the airways, passages or changes in skin color may be useful in determining the degree of injury..
Cough
When the mucus membranes of the respirtory tract get irritated, they secrete more mucus.
Bronchospasm and increased mucus production lead to reflex coughing.
The mucus may be clear or black depending on the degree of burned particles deposited in the lungs and trachea.
Shortness of breath
This may be caused by direct injury to the respirtory tract, leading to decreased oxygen delivery to the blood, the decreased ability of blood to carry oxygen because of chemicals in smoke, or the inability of the bodies cells to use oxygen.
The patient may have rapid breathing as they attempt to compensate for these injuries.
Hoarseness or noisy breathing.
This may be a sign that fluids are collecting in the upper airway and may cause a blockage.
Irritant chemicals may cause vocal chord spasms, swelling and constriction of the upper airways.
Eyes.
Eyes may be irritated and red with the smoke and there may be burns on the corneas in the eyes.
Skin color.
Skin color may range from pale to bluish to cherry red.
Soot.
Soot in the nostrills or throat may give a clue as to the degree of smoke inhalation.
In all fires people are exposed to various quantities of carbon monoxide.
The patient may have no respirtory problems, but may still have inhaled carbon monoxide.
Headache, nausea, and vomiting are symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Chemical asphyxiants and low levels of oxygen can lead to mental status changes.
Confusion, fainting,seizure and coma are all potential complications following smoke inhalation…
13…Burn to prevent fire mentality.
This practise has to be re-addressed in the big picture….Standing alone without consideration of all major aspects of real life is now archaic…Greater penalties..Property seizure and months, years at ”U.N. World Food Supply Conversion Settlements…We burn on purpose to prevent fire!!!!It even sounds ridiculous!! 95% of fires should be prevented..never started…permit system absolved..The current Carbon and vegetation RATIO cannot support and maintain any healthy equilibrium..Our atmosphere is degrading rapidly from many toxic human creations ..People who continue these archaic practices in the future are just trying to kill off slowly/quickly all life including us…not least purposefull pyromanoic human folly of burn everything…Build fire prone homes and other buildings in bush areas then burn the bush down so the house and sheds won’t burn down….dah….releasing poisonous gasses into the air and removing the very vegetated mechanisims that take in many of the contaminant and give us the oxygen we can’t live without. A full grown Oak tree and Red Gum traps forty tonnes of contaminant in its leaves per annum from the air. Large trees also drink up to 5000 gallons of water a day keeping the water table down elliminating soil surface salting.
The great AMAZON now being gradually eroded of trees/forest…soil being washed away silting the rivers and killing bio -diversity… for short term quick buck. Currently the Amazon absorbs 600 million tonnes of Carbon annually, as much as the European Union releases in that time!!!
Yes there is a very slow natural climate change but we are speeding its delivery to dangerous levels in a generation…with fires adding huge volumes to that problem by smoke and great loss of Carbon eater, absorbers/feeders..Would you bulldoze Grandmas house before she has moved out…no it would be easier to repair for her to stay and generations of hers to follow!!
14…Quotes from Queensland Governments fire information leaflets..
CAN I BURN TO FREQUENTLY?
Yes in most cases, a fire is not desirable in every paddock every year.. Burning to frequently can reduce ground cover which can lead to erosion problems, reduce the enterprises ability to survive drought, place stock under unnecessary pressure and reduce the desirable and increase undesirable pasture species.
WHAT EFFECT DOES FIRE HAVE ON AIR QUALITY?
Smoke haze which reduces visibility and may cause some physical discomfort such as sore eyes, sore throats and agravation of some breathing conditions.
Release of Carbon dioxide(CO2) into the atmosphere.(This is seriously understated)
Ash fallout.
Loss of some minerals such as nitrogen which are broken down and lost to the atmosphere when grass is burnt.
”Ecological burns help maintain a variety of habitat.”…(Bullshit…fairy language …Fire does not maintain or encourage habitat it only degrades the broad habitat in the short or long term……decreasing it rapidly or dangerously. All ”quotes ” can be debated as waffle and designed for lazy, archaic degrading management.
Smoke and fire has some germinating benefits but would only be naturally desirable maybe after a hundred years.. or more..not to suit a fastidious organised scientists diary of the now. We want these creatures and plants for thousands of years to come…”All is not right now”!!!!….)
”Plant communities are affected by the areas fire regime the frequency, intensity and time of the year”…
15…Plants and creatures that are seriously and likely to be affected by any fires/smoke.
Fire, smoke, confusion, panic, fear, surprise, lack of direction, eyes affected, sounds of fear, tremble, bewilderment…..
Skinks, Spiders, trapped….snakes, blue tongues, birds/smoke/ young. nests…..hunters fleeing to where???food supply loss,insects/Arthropod family..molluscs/myrapoda/arachnids/insects///////polination gone…antechinus,butterflies/ moths and host and overwintering plants..BEES WASPS POLINATION ON HOLD…THE EARTH CRIES…creature breeding issues…Plant/ creature companion living..support systems..Seed loss as against seed germination…greater interim periods naturally. Critical/endangered low plant species..Night roosting/living by many nocturnal creatures and plants…High/low nest hollows/homes for millions..Loss of organic matter where many small creatures live…their only home and retreat from predators and breeding place. The soil dies…I am saddened ..the farmer loses the great productive crust of the earth. Native rodents…Small bewildered marsupials. Koalas, Ground nesting birds, local mantids and grasshoppers….where do I fly? Quail, Bower birds, Lyre birds who live most of their life feeding and living on the ground with Pheasant Coucal, wrens and many other small birds have their feeding, living and breeding grounds obliterated..habitat reduction constantly eroding to less..less then none…. gone. …I cannot see..I cannot breathe…Parrots and their homes…Sugar gliders loss of habitat and food supply. Small low shrub and grass nesting birds and wasps…among millions of others…..I kneel to all 4 directions….to offer my hope to the great spirits for the improved journey of all the creatures and plants at human mercy…
May the blindfold of impatience and want be removed by new sunrise of the mind, logic and gentle consolodation…After some initial glut from injured, dead or fleeing animals during and just after fires…there is a highly reduced natural food basket for predatory birds especially wedge tail eagles who may have to move to decreasing habitat or fly closer to domestic/farm animals ensuring the ”Shoot at all times” mentality continues..Burning deliberately habitat of any sort is speeding up of the dumbing down of humanity and the ultimate elimination of fringe and othersurviving creatures…
16…Carbon tax part of a wider issue but an important leap.
A great start with evolving refinement…rather than sheepishly following the largest, loudest, ignorant, selfish Ram and doing nothing…
There is a stirring fact that this civilization has manipulated the face of the earth and affected the atmosphere with disproportionate, dangerous mixes of natural and fabricated, supposedly clever gasses to dangerous levels, while rapidly removing the only serious natural mechanism/function that brings balance and purity to our atmosphere…land plants and vegetation of the sea…especially plankton and trees.
There is more evidence that concludes that we must draw the bridge on much of the manipulation of the earth, its crust, depths , water and atmosphere.
Sadly the ones who have created and supported most of the degradation and potential poisoning of the earth, have made billions and would wish the status quo to remain till they have left the planet as they continue to support their own temporary dynasty. They would not share and take no responsibility or cost for prevention or cessation in good time.
Their clear agenda is for future generations to bear the cost and pain.
The future generations who did not implement the spoil and discover the current blatant perpertrators continued to richly exploit for the few and expand destructive elements of prosperity to a few…..
The new generations with the young now should be angry if the perpertrators of the past and plunderers of now, building their aggressive short term temples, empires and dynasties of degradation to human life and blasphemy to the earth itself….contributed nothing to prevent what could be viewed now as a certain bleak outcome as early as within the next 50 years.
These perpertrators became excessively wealthy by being clever with science and greed as an accomplice.
I suggest they find lateral and pragmatic methods of gentling down damaging product and eliminating unworthy degrading fires within ten years.
Yes develop proven systems but purify your current practices….for your billions.
THE PLANET SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT!!!
What many young people fear is that the rich, comfortable degraders want no change to the current status quo….and leave it steadily decline till they die…..no worries…and yet they could help bring worthy, sustainable change and still retain the degree of comfort all life should enjoy with great pride and contribution…WHO WILL BE THE REAL HEROES OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET IN 20 YEARS TIME…and who will be the destroyers???
17…Medical author…Benjamin C Wedro, MD. FAAEM…(Google article)
Melissa Conrad Stoppler. MD
An example…
The fires raging in California are the lead story on every news outlet in the country. The number of people evacuated and the number of homes destroyed are hard to comprehend. But as the fires die down, the television cameras will move on to the next stories from Southern California to be replaced by the next catastrophe.
In the medical world, the fallout from the fires may be exactly that….fallout. Ash and soot are covering thousands of square miles of land and my expectation is that those people with asthma and emphysema will soon be affected. While California has been the leader in this country in trying to limit second hand smoke exposure. Mother nature (Pyromaniacs,,archaic beuracracy and impatient land owners) has not read these laws. Smoking is illegal in public buildings, but just going outside could be to dangerous for many.
The small particles of soot and ash from the fires will continue to rain down on the area for many days to come and depending on atmospheric conditions, the area of pollution will extend well beyond the range of fires. These particles can act as irritants and trigger lung ailments in those already prone: aesthmatics, those with C.O.P.D. and emphysema, Hay fever or people with heart disease.
WE BREATHE LIKE A BELLOWS. THE RIBS SWING OUT, THE DIAPHRAM PUSHES DOWN, AND AIR IS SUCKED INTO THE LUNGS.
If the breathing tubes called the bronchioles, get narrow, it is much harder to suck in air. Think of breathing thru a straw and the harder you try to suck in, the more the straw collapses. Soot and ash can cause the small involuntary muscles that surround the brochioles to go into spasm and cause those tubes to narrow. As well the same particles can cause direct swelling inside the bronchiole and further narrowing occurs. Sucking in air thru the narrow tubes causes the wheezing sound. Sometimes if there isn’t enough air moving, the patient/person may be to tight to wheeze…
(Several methods of providing relief for symptoms are available with death the only relief to serious sufferers in constant poor contaminated conditions.)
When the media and news people leave, the stories will be just beginning.The clean up will put people in the middle of the dirt, dust, ash and soot. Hospital emergency departments will start to see the number of people suffering from respirtory problems rise and there will be no one to report the story. Years from now, a medical journal will publish stories about how large scale fires affected the need for medical care in 2007. Sadly no one will report that story either…..End of Article
Nine million Australians suffer with Asthma and allergies today, mainly contaminants in the air or/and questionable products. High levels of dangerous smoke..QLD…NO SMOKING SIGNS WHILE PEOPLE SITTING IN DANGEROUS LEVELS OF DELIBERATE REGULAR SMOKE FOR MANY MONTHS…………….
18…Canterbury road Urban forest/Nature trail..South Melbourne/Middle park.Albert Park Victoria.
AN EXAMPLE.
In 1974 I found myself appointed Gardens Administrator of the City of South Melbourne, ready to bring change to how public places and spaces were managed….
Urban change/Urban renewal. A new urban green environment..
Canterbury road South Melbourne to St Kilda including Middle Park and Albert Park…with a road grass verge approximately 15 metres wide between the road and tram lines bordering Albert Park lake. Almost 3 kilometres long and opposite some beautiful terraced homes in different degrading condition at that time. The whole poor environment searching for sparkling change.
Some 8 trees in various stages of poor health struggled with the fumes of 40 000 vehicles going immediately past every day..
I designed/planned an Urban forest/nature trail for this area…to green this sad place and improve the air. ”It would not work”.. I was told by the cynical…”See the few trees that are there are dying or in poor health…to many fumes for trees to grow”was their response….I replied…”A few trees struggle with the fumes, I will plant thousands of trees to help spread the load!!”.
One thousand children from all Schools in the City planted almost 4000 trees and large shrubs of some 300 trialled trees for the area. Only about 8 different types of trees (only 2 or 3 natives) would grow in the Urban environment according to previous and many current Park managers at that time.
Only one variety of the 300 odd natives planted died. All the rest thrived and grew to this day or their time..Many local provenance plants have been added/introduced in the last 20 years.
This project gained much attention and triggered a new urban green change with other initiatives in South Melbourne at the time and particularly the ignorance in regard to native plants..Another archaic practise finally dislodged/dissolved.Read my book..”I sing now ” an autobiography..50 years in Local Government having a go for change. ”digital print australia…refer book store.”
My main objective at the time was to improve urban air quality and bring creature habitat to the City for the native wildlife and human education about their own Country…lost to them in a stark, hard City…Thirteen native birds returned to this formerly hard stark environment and aphid invasion dissapeared. THE AIR IMPROVED…Large trees can trap up to 40 tonnes of contamimant in their leaves annualy….as well as oxygenise the local atmosphere…It still works today as it has for millions of years!!
I wrote a paper titled”The Community and its Air” around 1998. In 1976 I planted thousands of trees in South Melbourne to improve the air quality in this urban environment…and critisized Melbourne City Council for only planting deciduous trees that only replenish air in summer as they are dormant in winter..
19…New fire permit issueing training/ certification…
It is time anyone issueing fire permits must look beyond the wind problems, cattle needs, total fire ban days and frivilous burning . All must now be considered around health and carbon issues..It is a new era of working always for the benefit of the health of the planet..and land managers must shift from fire solutions to other healthy fire risk reduction/control and punishment. All permit issuers must have stronger powers aligned with police and health services/systems. Fire and air quality, approval issues, Perpetual habitat retention in a more residual time frame…forever, not today/tomorrow only.
20…Soil erosion.
A prime poor outcome of all fires…as the top soil ends up in the sea or the cities with high loss of nutrient and organic matter..Lunacy!!!The soil provides us with food we eat and stores the carbon within it….
21….Wasted burns…
Cyclonic force fires like Black saturday, Ash Wednesday and the Victorian High country and Grampians fires would not have been prevented by any pre- burn fires other than burning it all before hand…and that is stupid for what is required…These types of cyclonic force fires leap everything at great speed. Melton Victoria some years ago…6 k of sparse nibbled down stubble between the Urban area and the fire front coming from the west..The fire quickly jumped the bare 6 kilometres and threatened the Urban area boundaries..All was nearly lost except for some fine bravery from firefighters and frightened, shocked home owners. What was left in Merimbular National Park would still all burn down in a Cyclonic force fire after it had been cold burned as would anywhere else…New thinking desired and seriously implemented..
Cotradictions…
Signs in Nationa parks reading…”No fires at all permitted” and in all their literature…and then they burn almost the whole of the park down or cold burn all the ground litter and small plants and creatures…How does that make any f #@%*)ng sense…Signs everywhere and rightfully so..but not allowed to remove flowers, wood or stick is..fines apply…then burn the whole f##$$%%n lot down releasing all the poison carbon they store into the atmosphere.. Not allowed to pick up a stick but watch it all go up in smoke next week…What is the purpose of National parks and other bush reserves.. It now must include storage of carbon and other gasses..the greater planet and human,creature, health and plant issues by retention not short term practices and permitted fire destructive to us all…. Perpetual not destructive whimsy by ignorant subservient managers and politicions.
22…Community education…
A new approach to the community regarding change of focus regarding burning ..New weed control practices, (remove and smother/compost) ..use of retraining/ correctional services. A greater understanding of our air and the threats to its purity.. Schools five prime education requrements..The function and threat to our air, water, soil and food…as well as new safe housing agendas and implementation. The urgent health of the planet…The truth…Degrading practices.
23…Who will be our heroes in the future..Not the degrading perpetrators…The planet will throw us off without the need for environmental and brave heroes that fight for the gentle welfare of all life. Fire/ smoke must view a reduction in keeping with a new modern healthy equilibrium…maybe by 90% including industrial. It will be done…
24…Poem….
SMOKING..
Gawd this bloody smoke
We’ll all bloody choke
It is no joke
The State will be broke…
With a class action
For millions and a fraction
To create a distraction
When we don’t die quickly by fire
But from something more dire
We would not aspire
To end up in the mire
Burning the bush
So it wo’nt catch alight
That can’t be right
Give us all a fright
With no delight
And light up the night….
With squeals and heat
Stressed hearts
And burnt meat.
Death from shock and fear
All is unclear
As the fire comes near
Smoke and fire is not a regular known thing to the wild
Adult or child
Bug, animal, bird or snake
Hey from an ordinary bloody bloke
Get rid of the bloody smoke
Its not bloody fair
On our clean pure air
Or we’ll all be gone
And there we will be
Don’t wait and see
Believe me……………….. BAC
If you want any level of growth culture, you must make gentle, sensitive, balanced adjustments to all the negative products growth brings…or design/consolidate for positive by-product…
Our partnership with the planet is like climbing a mountain…every step up brings a better view of everything and what may be needed to refine something behind you..for the better…
Regards
Brian A Carter.