That’s one of the things I meant by “various methods,” but a controlled burn isn’t preventing the burn itself, just (hopefully) its spread. The fire is going to happen regardless, because it’s a natural and necessary occurrence.
If our various governments could be bothered to actually penalize the worst polluters and invest in actually clean energy sources, the wildfires would sort themselves out; we’re the ones that are making them worse.
Yeah but the wildfire situation won’t get better any time soon, even if we stopped all emitting today. You need controlled burns. A small controlled burn is a hell of a lot better than a massive uncontrolled one.
Right. I agree that controlled burns are necessary, and firefighters already do them. My point is that those things are addressing the symptom of increased wildfires, and people are “ignoring black carbon,” because it’s not a viable path towards meaningfully addressing that specific issue.
Wildfires won’t ever completely stop just because we switch to 100% green energy, but this article is looking at the problem from the wrong end.
But they haven’t been doing controlled burns, that’s part of the issue. At least in the USA, controlled burns stopped for a long time. Now we have forests that are too dense
Actually, we can limit wildfires with controlled burns
That’s one of the things I meant by “various methods,” but a controlled burn isn’t preventing the burn itself, just (hopefully) its spread. The fire is going to happen regardless, because it’s a natural and necessary occurrence.
If our various governments could be bothered to actually penalize the worst polluters and invest in actually clean energy sources, the wildfires would sort themselves out; we’re the ones that are making them worse.
Yeah but the wildfire situation won’t get better any time soon, even if we stopped all emitting today. You need controlled burns. A small controlled burn is a hell of a lot better than a massive uncontrolled one.
Right. I agree that controlled burns are necessary, and firefighters already do them. My point is that those things are addressing the symptom of increased wildfires, and people are “ignoring black carbon,” because it’s not a viable path towards meaningfully addressing that specific issue.
Wildfires won’t ever completely stop just because we switch to 100% green energy, but this article is looking at the problem from the wrong end.
But they haven’t been doing controlled burns, that’s part of the issue. At least in the USA, controlled burns stopped for a long time. Now we have forests that are too dense