The growing field of “firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.
The growing field of “firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.
Wildfires are a natural part of the ecosystem. Some ecosystems would collapse without them. But stopping wildfires doesn’t cut into profits, it can even be made profitable!
They’re talking about having frequent prescribed burns, as was the practice before European arrival, instead of lower frequency hgih-intensity fires.
That’s nothing new. We’ve been doing that since the 80s.
Not at anything like the needed scale
Well that’s because the plan is stupid and ineffective. Far more carbon could be sequestered by growing kudzu and then dumping it down mines.