ted (not lasso)
@ted
learning as much as i can about wildfires. prescribed burns are a prevention tactic to reduce the buildup of vegetation that could serve as fire fuel. it takes an avg of 4.7 yrs for a prescribed burn to get through environmental reviews. 80M acres need urgent treatment — that means now, not in 5 years. maddening!
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@links
Do you associate wildfires with climate change? It might be an insensitive question, it just feels like they are getting worse every year and we are completely moloch’d from solving it.
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matt đź’
@matthewmorek
Wildfires are a natural way for the nature to start things again (burn down, use ashes to regrow) and are generally preventable. Just check how Californian Fire Dept has been fighting it some 90-100 years ago. Anthropogenic climate change is the usual scapegoat, but it has nothing to do with climate change and mostly to do with lack of human conservation and prevention, which have been banned or restricted in the name of “let the nature do it’s thing”, and so it does. Check local policies and strategies and you’ll see motivations. It’s the same with floods in Europe. They remove dams and reservoirs, and then when the floods occur they blame it on “climate change”, while most of them could’ve been prevented with regular maintenance, surveys and civic engineering.
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
climate change is real, but saying “it’s climate change” isn’t actually helpful imo. the climate movement largely focuses on CO2 emissions. attacking CO2 will not move the needle quickly for urgent wildfires when there are tactical things that can be done that will. LA has always had forest fires fwiw.
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