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| | | Costing the Earth tells stories which touch all our lives, looking at man's effect on the environment and at how the environment reacts. It questions accepted truths, challenges the people in charge and reports on progress towards improving the world we live in. | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN Ìý30 min | | | |
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Bush Fire
Trees exploded within a mile of the Prime Minister’s residence, firemen fought the flames from suburb to suburb and smoke enveloped half the city. The Canberra fires of last year reminded Australians just how vulnerable they are to nature’s backlash.
In this week’s ‘Costing the Earth’ Miriam O’Reilly asks why cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are being attacked by fiercer and more frequent fires and seeks out some solutions from scientists, conservationists and the local aboriginal tribes. | |
 | | | Miriam O'Reilly asks whyÌýAustralian bushfires are getting fiercer.
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The aborigines have always used fire as a land management tool, setting small fires to flush out game or to create the fire-breaks which prevented large fires from taking hold. But White Australia is gradually moving inland, setting up farmsteads, country homes and camp-sites, all of them vulnerable to unexpected fire. Faced with the threat of badly-singed campers the authorities have banned native burning traditions from much of the bush country. Inevitably this means that there’s plenty of fuel on the ground whenever a careless camper or a lightning storm set off an uncontrolled inferno.
Fire is a natural and essential part of Australia’s eco-system. Can a way be found to protect the cities from its worst effects?
Scientists, conservationists, native Australians and Dr Germaine Greer suggest some answers. | | |
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