Climate change will continue to worsen fires. Plus, poor ways of taking care of the forest. So if we stop global warming by using renewables like wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal, we can help slow global warming and take care of our forests. Will humans be able to solve climate change? Will we ever know? We need to find better ways of traveling, not just driving a car; I mean flying and the trucking industry.
Well, regarding the forest fires, I truly believe that we can find evidence that such calamities are due to irresponsible state and federal governments. For the last 40 years or more, they have been investing heavily in discrediting those people who would promote protecting the forests. A good portion didn’t move a finger to stop those who like to destroy forests with fires or to stop those who show a clear disregard for nature. The nature that is there, or that was there, took millions of years to get to that point.
While a government took a few decades, or centuries at most, the plain disregard to provide clear welcoming protection to all the already endangered nature is a clear sign that the people in government have committed a mistake from which there is no coming back from, if people lose their jobs for silly things of which we got plenty of examples to mention, then these forest fires are of the sort of mistakes that should be capital crimes, in a country like the USA, where is common to find people, and corporations with more wealth than entire nations, there is no excuse, that could be valid, in case of someone wondering from where does all this finger pointing come from, let’s keep in mind that the way to move water that would be needed to stop and to prevent such forest fires, has been known for the past millennia.
Now if we would like to include the ROMAN aqueducts, then instead of the past millennia, we would need to state that it is for the last 3000 years or more. The thing old enough to hold such practical memory is the government of each country and state. The fact that a country like the USA does not have the means to prevent such forest fires doesn’t seem like a normal thing. To me, it seems more like a crime from which there is no coming back. The poor people who are struggling just to make ends meet, just to get to the next year, can’t be blamed for this; this is clearly the duty of the most wealthy people on the planet.
This is clearly a duty of the country with perhaps the richest corporations on the planet; this is the responsibility of the power that can create weapons of mass destruction; it is the responsibility of the state that can have millions of soldiers with expensive gear; it is not the responsibility of the poor nor the homeless; the law should have a clear approach to this; the human expertise has been misused; let not make the mistake of thinking that such calamities are normal or that they should happen, because they should not happen, not at this age, not with all the tools that can be summoned in what seems like a flash.
It would help if a lot of these fires weren’t deliberately set or caused by people doing dangerous and stupid things like having a huge campfire when everything is bone dry and setting off fireworks when we haven’t had a drop of rain in 8 months. That ain’t climate change; it’s just ignorance gone to seed. I have noticed multiple people at camping places make huge fires on windy days in August that they don’t completely extinguish at night when they go to bed, and others leave their BBQ grills still burning when done cooking and toss still-lit cigarette butts out the window when driving. I have seen every single one of those things this summer.
It’s a near-desert in central California for 8 months of the year. But we get 4 months of rain when we get enormous growth, which people don’t very often mow or trim because there is just so much of it. California has a huge population in small areas because of geography and is very lightly populated in many areas, where there is a ton of super dry fuel that is rarely cleaned up because of the sheer volume. That is why the indigenous peoples used controlled fires to clean out the dense undergrowth. They understood then, as now, the danger of too much fuel in a hot, dry climate. They didn’t have the same equipment to stop fires we do now, but they fought fire literally with fire. Those burned areas were both buffer zones and safe zones in case of an actual fire. The result of the fires was a rich new start in the winter and spring, which benefited animals and people. We could certainly learn from the people of the past instead of defying nature with a bucket of water.
People keep blaming fossil fuels, like oil and coal, but no one is saying anything about population growth on this planet. We’re talking about people who want the American way of life, and trust me, they’re going to do whatever it takes regardless of what’s going to happen to their local environment. in their countries to achieve first-world status and a higher rate of living. Like it or not, by 2024, the planet will have 8 billion people, and by 2050, Africa alone will have 4.5 billion people. How do you provide water and energy to a continent that size? Without oil or nuclear energy, it is sad to say that nothing can be done about climate change.