Unintended consequences.

Now let's go back a few days to that peninsula jungle. I slashed my block while the overgrowth was still alive, making it easier to dispose of. As summer sets in, anything not removed will dry out and die, creating a vast layer of combustible material. Inevitably some owners will not carry be able out this work in the narrowing  window of time before Christmas. Well into November, they are still banned from entering the peninsula at all - and there not enough local tradesmen to clear thousands of properties, even if they could access them. The peninsula is already a fire-prone narrow isthmus of land carrying a population that doubles over summer, exceeding that of Hobart.

And there’s only a few ways out.

It was dangerous here even before the pandemic - I posted this on the last day of 2019.