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
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