Not to exaggerate issues – this approach, old as a world itself, is surely handy while analysing any event of a complex interaction of natural and man-made causes surely.

Perhaps, suggesting that self-regulated systems an Earth biosphere surely belongs to, follow natural path keeping their entropies (gradual alterations of characteristics accustomed) balanced, is a sure logic way to approaching any environment problem.

From such a viewpoint, Australian bushfires are a natural process maintaining fertility of soil in a particular ecosystem, themselves disastrous for particular those being reduced to ashes.

Understandably, that human are the most gravely both effected and capable to initiate such occurrences.

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An expert on terrorism says the recent Australian bushfire disaster could have been a “forest jihad”.

Queensland academic Dr Mervyn Bendle said police had been too hasty in dismissing a possible link, despite a stream of chatter on terrorist websites urging supporters to conduct a pyro-terror attack.

Dr Bendle said radical Muslims were being encouraged to switch from spectacular 9/11-type attacks to more achievable arson assaults.

Dr Bendle’s full essay can be read on www.nationalobserver.net .