The growing field of ​“firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.

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    7 months ago

    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!

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      They’re talking about having frequent prescribed burns, as was the practice before European arrival, instead of lower frequency hgih-intensity fires.

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          7 months ago

          Not at anything like the needed scale

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            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.