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.

  • TrismegistusMx
    2·
    7 months ago

    Nature isn’t unpredictable. It’s done the same thing forever. We are the ones fucking it up.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      7 months ago

      What’s hard to predict are the consequences of us further messing with it. We always think we can just tweak things. Like fixing forest fires or seeding clouds of sulfur. We’re just naive apes with fancy tools.

      • TrismegistusMx
        2·
        7 months ago

        If we valued a homeostatic, intentional civilization we could be the immune system of the planet instead of the capitalistic cancer we currently are.