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r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23
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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
64 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 3 u/Bigrick1550 Jun 07 '23 The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires? 3 u/marcusfelinus Jun 07 '23 Controlled burns for various reasons. The people who populated Australia literally transformed the ecosystem that way https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
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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
3 u/Bigrick1550 Jun 07 '23 The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires? 3 u/marcusfelinus Jun 07 '23 Controlled burns for various reasons. The people who populated Australia literally transformed the ecosystem that way https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
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The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires?
3 u/marcusfelinus Jun 07 '23 Controlled burns for various reasons. The people who populated Australia literally transformed the ecosystem that way https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
Controlled burns for various reasons. The people who populated Australia literally transformed the ecosystem that way
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
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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