Australian wilderness is adapted to periodic razings. Some trees actually require being burned in order to reproduce.
The concept that wildfires are universally bad is an incorrect one forced upon the natural world, and fire prevention measures simply end up causing the fires, when they inevitably occur, to be far worse than they would have been under more natural circumstances.
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