Aboriginal Tradition Could Prevent Bushfires in Australia
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Australian Aboriginal people have used fire to stop wildfires for thousands of years. Many see it as a solution for the devastating blazes that have ravaged the country. In Queensland, the Indigenous organization Firesticks is hosting workshops for people from across the country to spread that knowledge.
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Aboriginal Tradition Could Prevent Bushfires in Australia
The American Indians use to do this in California before the colonizers made it illegal. Now we have constant random wild fires. Only recently has the government considered bringing back controlled burns.
Aswell as they(legislature) not letting electric companies cut down trees near powerlines and/or letting leaf litter be burned they don't want to "harm" the environment but end up completely annihilating forest and communities when fires do start.
@@argus4650 thank a Democrat
Dragon Master idk
Yeah okay buddy
They only stopped doing that in the last decade or so
Fire bending is not destruction it is also life...
Trueeeee
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Nah, here in my country we called it kaingin(ka-e-ngen) but it really discourage we love nature and we encourage to plants more trees. FYI I'm from Philippines
I really feel bad becausethey burn the ground though they says it is in a healthy way
@@karlpatrickprias8185 oo naman bro.... Kaingin is not suited sa rainforest natin, s kanila outback grassland common ang bushfire s kanila kaya apoy ang panlaban nila sa apoy kasi. Dahil bihira ang ulan..😊😇🙏
Its a shame that content like these aren't getting much attention.
In Africa this is a common and normal practice in the grassland areas during the driest of seasons and it helps prepare the ground before rains come which gives a better lush growth. It’s ancient tradition.
People need to learn from the ancient paths .....
We used to do this on the farm. It’s so true.
I guess I just thought people in authority knew what they were doing. But big men with badges are often just that.
People forget that tribes (worldwide) have survived earthquakes tsunamis etc. How they do it and medicines they use should be incorporated by the west but, we think we know everything nowadays 😂
R/woosh
@Loli4lyf With all due respect man. I get what you are saying but you are not completely right. I wanna say that I am a doctor (General Physician) and a Non Hindu so that you can see that I am not biased about this. I live in India where we practice Ayurveda(5000 years old healthcare tradition in India from plants). My sister has fibromyalgia and TMJ- intense muscle pain and skeleton degradation of the jaw bones making her unable to chew food. I knew that there were no FDA approved cures to this disease. Just muscle relaxers. Still me being a doctor myself I took her to all the famous hospitals and ortho and maxillofacial docs throughout India and even at California USA. I didn't believe in this herbs and even homeopathy as being a qualified allopathic doctor. My grandmother (95 years old) insisted that I consider her taking ayurvedic medicine. After 7 years of severe pain my sister endured, I finally gave in and tried ayurvedic medicine and ointments for her. After about 9 months of treatment( no cost at all when compared to modern medicine. It only cost me about $800 for her 9 months treatment)...My sister was Pain free. Its not a complete cure but 99% of the pain subsided. She can eat food too. I was blown away. Like literally. I am a god damn doctor and tried everything in the books but of no use. But only after 9 months of treatment she back to her normal life. My only regret is that I waited 7 years before allowing her to try ayurvedic.. This is just 1 story of several millions. We humans survived 500,000 years after migrating from africa without modern medicine. Modern medicine is literally about big pharmaceutical corporations making money out of patients. Create a problem offer a solution. And FYI: I dont use insulin for my diabetes even tho I can get it for free( docs get free samples), I use ayurvedic herbs. 🙋🏻♂️ Have better control on my sugar levels than i did with my insulin. My education: MBBS, MD.
I respect science. But I respect more the history and the traditions that made us survive this far.
Ok if we are gonna focus on the medicine point then let’s question how have they managed to stay around? We have cures for man made illnesses, you’ve watched too many movies if you think these medicine men don’t know what they are doing. Also I’m sure it is proven that the govonola tree is 10000 more effective than chemotherapy. Found in remote regions of the Amazon. Also isn’t acupuncture a form of old tribal medicine? Soooo any other stupid replies ?
And thank you Steve for your experience. I have had no personal experience with medicines but I know a lot about plants herbs trees and weeds and let’s just say a lot of medicine is not given to us because it’s either not locally sourced or it’s not able to make the pharmaceutical companies money.
@Loli4lyf there just hasn't been sufficient research done on traditional practices. But just because there are not substantial scientific evidence to prove that they are helpful does not mean that we are allowed to discredit their practices . For example yoga and meditation are traditional practices which has been practiced for hundreds of years and they have been proven to have health benefits .
I remember when controlled burns were policy & used to control underbrush & prevent wildfires. That was back before the 80s. Then the environmentalists, thinking they knew better put a stop to it. After untold loses of lives & property, you'd think they'd get a clue & permit it again. Better small, controlled fires than out of control giant fires.
I’m not sure if it’s true... But my family also told me that it was a great way to exterminate ticks and other parasites, but unfortunately it got banned ☹️
Controlled burning was never stopped. The environmentalists weren't the main reason permits were put in place, the fire fighters were. People would do a "controlled burn" by setting fires, but had no training, no fire breaks anywhere, and caused massive fires they lost control of. There is literally a park ranger in this video describing how they do hazard reduction burns. The myth about "greenies" stopping burns is ludicrous. The greenies want exactly what these indigenous Australians want - back burns done the right way, so the animals and environment are harmed as little as possible. Many people latch on to this argument of back burns not happening - even though they are - because they deny climate science.
@@haydencondely5187 Thank you for correcting this muppet
@@haydencondely5187 Well no, greenies have prevented backburning because of 'endangered lizards' were at risk. There was a story about it down in melbourne.
@@chrispsackettThat's was a made up hoax. By foreign agents not even from Australia.
Bloody park rangers pissed about being told, rather than hearing what they’re being told.
Knowledge is power!
There is so much to be learned from the indigenous peoples of the World but we seem to think we are smarter than people who have lived and thrived for an entirety.
"So much to learn" 😂😂😂 These people hadn't invented the wheel or passed the stone age. They lived brutal existences and usually died young, either from a preventable disease or from tribal warfare. They would often wage bloody war because of a natural event like a cyclone which they believed happened because a neighboring tribe cast a spell on them so they would seek revenge against them. But yeah, go on, tell us about how they are smarter than the people who can launch a satellite into space.
Bro White people existed as well and we didn't just sit around doing nothing. Why do you act like no other people existed haha.
I live in NSW and I can say we do back burn down here. After the big one it's obvious we don't back burn correctly. We need the Indigenous knowledge of the country. The whole 50,000 years worth!
You bluddy Queenslanders always do everything better than us lol
Burning small bushes prevent too much undergrowth from settling, which is the cause of many wildfires. 😉
Not just the cause but the fuel to grow so fast
I used the fire to destroy the fire
Here in New Jersey, the pine lands burn all the time. They burn so often that when a brush fire starts, they only prevent it from going towards structures and just let it burn.
Needs to be done in NSW
I didn't know this this video needs to have billions of views
let keep traditional way alive
Big part of country ask any one who lives in Central and the Top End of Australia. Seen it done in S.A, W.A and QLD also.
I have contacted my local Council in Sydney, Australia after watching Victor Steffensen on TV taking about traditional fire burning and how he imparts his knowledge to Firefighters and other people around Australia. I have suggested to Council to invite him to help with back burning in our Council which has a lot of wooded areas. It was dismissed with an explanation that he does not have a knowledge about the specifics of our area. It made my blood boil. The arrogance of the people who have been in the country just couple of hundred years thinking that they knowledge is greater than of those who’ve inhabited the continent for, some say, 60 thousands of years!
Omg that crackle of grass burning.... satisfying....
Oh Jesus give the park ranger a break. Everyone lecturing him and acting like he's responsible. He's just a guy working man, give him a break. He agreed with everyone. Just seems nasty. Not how you build allies. Grow up
It’s being apart of a discussion. Both sides had a chance to voice how they felt. It’s needed to come to solution. It’s actually the grown up way of doing things.
@@agiantcub8it542 berating people that agree with you and giving them attitude while you outnumber them 20 to 1? Nah. Thats some schoolyard bullshit.
Who is berating him?If someone is doing a bad job,they are going to get lectured,get over it.
@@lilcrust3063 this guy literally said he doesn't think it was good. He's agreeing with them. And they're coming at him like the whole operation is his idea. That's like being mad at the McDonald's manager because the food is unhealthy. He just fuckin works there man.
The video doesnt show you everything. Its only bits and pieces. For all we know those lecturing are meant for someone else or a differe topic.
Some of the plants and trees actually need the smoke to germinate and regenerate from seeds. If left for too long lightning from a dry storm would cause too much destruction.
Florida does this in the state forest that borders my property we have never had issues with wildfires they do controlled burns every couple years
here in california everything is just constantly on fire
yeah, we still do organised prescribed burns and burn offs. it’s not something that has died out, it’s quite common in the cold months.
Fighting fire with fire 🔥
@Mukbang 2 no the world will understand the value of sight
That's hot
And then, the fire nation saved the Forrest.
In the US fire fighters already do this
Yup. I've read in a few places California doesn't do this anymore which is contributing to their fires. In their defense, I believe it's to allow for more biodiversity. If true, there's gotta be middle ground.
Work with native tribes?
@@bryanjk it wouldn't hurt to let people collect firewood either, especially downed trees
@@bryanjk
What kind of biodiversity is involved in devastating, all consuming, wildfires that wipe out hundreds of thousands of acres, kill thousands of species of plants and animals as well as displaced hundreds of thousands of animals that do happen to make it?
Because the logic is that 250 years of being on this land and a phd can substitute over 50,000 years of wisdom and knowledge 🤦🏾♀️
It can. Aboriginals wiped out the megafauna and destroyed many forests with their stupid practices.
In New Jersey the fire department’s do this about every year or 2 in the pine barrens
Firebending comes from the gut, not the muscle
Please let the native people to handle how the way the treat their forest because they know what is good for there forest. They won't destroy there life even your self
And they said never fight fire with fire
WOW never knew this can happen!
This is reminiscent of American Indians' practice of controlled burns.
Back burning has been used in Australia for decades. The problem is that people don't like the smoke or the idea that someone is actively starting a fire near their house. The bushfires that plagued australia in early 2020 where partly caused by a lack of back burning but not an absence of it. This title is either clickbait or bad reporting.
How is the title clickbait? It said that this method could stop wildfires, this is true
The title implies that this is a brand new inovation that hasn't been used before. Clickbait doesn't have to lie, it just has to strongly lead the reader to assume something its not. The "could" in the title should be a "has". Most Australians already know that Aboriginal back burning is to thank for preventing huge bushfires that would've killed people and burned down homes.
Not only learning but causing bush fires 🙂
They burn the dry plants I think, dry plants will make fires worse so burning them will be great
This seems like a good solution
It's not seems a good solution, it is the solution.
The RFS already conducts controlled burning/back burning.
The problem is that you can't control a controlled burning if the conditions are too hot, too dry, and too windy otherwise a controlled burn will quickly burn out of control. Even strategies like bulldozing bushland to make control lines have to be done in ideal temps because the heat from vehicles and machinery can ignite ground cover.
Back burning was normally done during spring just before summer/bushfire season. Today it's done during autumn and winter because spring in recent years has been too hot and dry.
Last summer the RFS hadn't had much opportunity to conduct back burning in ideal conditions.
NSW has been and much of it still is in a drought. Sydney dam levels dropped below 40% last summer/bushfire season, the last time it was that low was 15 years ago during the last drought that reached the Sydney basin.
Dont you think that's why it's done in the fall?
Finally, a sensible comment. This argument about controlled burns being banned and the environmentalists banning all back burning is ludicrous. Usually it's just a way for people to deny climate science by latching on to a baseless argument that is perpetuated by our mainstream media.
Thank you, this is very informative
The world is getting hotter and Warmer it's super hot inside on outside
@Chris Russell exactly
@Chris Russell How come the temperatures are rising?
Ah yes, fight fire with fire
You know they(Aboriginals) created that environment(Bush)by hunting that way for millennium.
Damn Fire VS Fire the Winner Fire
What you really need is animals that will to eat those grasses. Burning it only makes the land drier.
Australia watching this like:👁👄👁
It's amazing these so-called educated people can be such stupid fucks. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a fire that is too big or too hot will wipe out things that doesn't need to wipe out.
After the control fire burn has happened the fuel for uncontrolled fire would be smaller. This practice has been done in all wildfire locations, search it up
It's not aboriginal btw.... It means not original
You take away the fuel. You dont have to be a genius to understand this even Trump said it a year ago and everyone just laughed.
Fight fire with fire
Schönes Wochenende 😎☕🥝🍅🍕🌭🥪
Just get on and do what your doing otherwise you'll be there all day waiting for the government to help u lot out.
I still don't understand how it's helping. It's still burning the forest
It's burning away all the underbrush *fuel* so you can't have gigantic runaway wildfires like they do every year in California.
Only some people will get it but for the 99% of you how don't understand I will tell you if they burn it so when the real fire hits there will not be anything to burn so thanks 🙏 for listening 👂🏽 and buyyyyy
they turned a bunch of rainforest areas into dry schlerophyll which is prone to fire... But we should all respect their technological prowess.. lmao
Next up: creating floods to stop floods.
Fight fire, with fire.. nice🔥🚬😤👍.
I thought this would CAUSE fires.
Nah leave it to the white man, apparently they know better
Now i understand why Australia was burning 🥵
Because they weren’t doing as many of these controlled fires
Sir Deadeye 🤔🤔🤔
Jassa Palahi what do you mean by “🤔🤔🤔”?
Matrisse Watego aah okok
No way, hazard reduction burns actually reduce the hazard of a bad bushfire 🤯
اصلا حال نکردم.
We used to do controlled burning, then the liberals said oh no this is terrible!
They should respect the natural practices.
You say to spread this no dont somone does something wrong and it starts a big fire
We need to stop the fire
Why have children do it tho?
Why not?
Wow it’s ancient tradition to pass on knowledge
Lol , what a load of BS . Western knowledge of fire is far superior to aboriginal knowledge. The terrain is chalk and cheese . This native magical knowledge is joke.
Wow, you kinda seem a bit racist there
Looks like a whole lot of CO2 being released....
Might be the lesser of 2 evils. A larger forest fire would also burn the canopy releasing even more co2 and destroying the plant life converting it to oxygen.
Not to mention if it destroys homes which would release even more co2 when they are rebuilt
@John Teare But new life would then grow, absorbing the released C02. That happened every year when plants die in winter on one side of the world, they spring new life on the other side where it's not cold. It keeps itself in balance. Mass land clearing along with large amounts of C02 pollution throw it out of balance, which equals climate change.
It's two totally different bushlands you said you didn't hurt the canopies what about the shrubs and bushes we have a lot of smaller birdlife that rely on the shrubs protection from birds of prey fires of any sort controlled or not changes the landscape but what the national park done in your area is disgusting and contradictory to what a National Park stands for
What would a runaway wildfire that results from all the shrubbery *fuel* you want to leave behind do to your bird life.
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Who the hell disliked this if this isn't a solution this might contribute to more brush fires more animal deaths more people dying from smoke and more co2 contributing to the atmosphere
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA
What if something goes wrong
well alrighty then. (68th cmmnt)
🧚🏻♂️🌏🌌🦅🤗
How could it save Australia though? 🤨 It already had a big ass fire
Don’t say bad words
Does Australia want to have one every year, like California? No? Then that's how it will save Australia.
Lol and now tell how lighting the fires you use as political blackmail ? Ah to real that topic aye .
Things might not grow back
Incorrect. They tend to grow back better than before
@@sophiewhitehouse6718 oh ok
@@sophiewhitehouse6718 but the world is getting worst
@@sophiewhitehouse6718 is not good for out planet if they keep doing it /burning it
These backburns are smaller and produce less CO2 than the huge fires
Allow nature to take place. Is not by your power g!!nw
I understand where you are coming from but if this actually helps minimize the risk of more dangerous natural wildfires that can cause alot of damage to wildlife and property and can result in death , than why not use it ? After all prevention is better than cure .
Karen spotted!
@@yousefabutazil467 lmao
The world might end
Thanks to the Aboriginal burning, most of the Australian Megafauna went extinct...