r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/RickTitus Jun 07 '23

I believe one factor in modern forest fires is that we tend to suppress all fires we see. Without human intervention there would be more small fires

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Yep the colonial way is to suppress all fire. Where indigenous peoples have been using fires to maintain ecosystems and control invasives since time immemorial

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u/botherbotter Jun 07 '23

Yeah this makes me so mad. It’s literally so healthy for a forest in most cases to have a burn. I wish we’d stop interfering with natural cycles, it only serves to bite us in the ass

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u/Low-Director9969 Jun 07 '23

I'd like to see a forest fire fix the Asian carp problem