'The current fuel load in some Australian forests is not “natural”. It is a product of colonisation, which loaded Australian landscapes with fuel [because] frontier violence and massacres between the 1830s and 1860s removed [people] and disrupted a millennia-long relationship of care.' https://theconversation.com/colonisation-not-climate-change-first-primed-these-forests-to-burn-292997 #community #conservation #climateChange #indigenous #wildfires #Australia #eucalyptus #carbon