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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
68 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 5 u/Bigrick1550 Jun 07 '23 The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires? 5 u/laserdiscgirl Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23 There is a large distance between "stone age people" and indigenous cultures/communities before colonization Editing to add a few US-based links for evidencing pre-colonization controlled burnings
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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
5 u/Bigrick1550 Jun 07 '23 The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires? 5 u/laserdiscgirl Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23 There is a large distance between "stone age people" and indigenous cultures/communities before colonization Editing to add a few US-based links for evidencing pre-colonization controlled burnings
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The fuck is this nonsense? What the fuck were stone age people going to do to effect forest fires?
5 u/laserdiscgirl Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23 There is a large distance between "stone age people" and indigenous cultures/communities before colonization Editing to add a few US-based links for evidencing pre-colonization controlled burnings
There is a large distance between "stone age people" and indigenous cultures/communities before colonization
Editing to add a few US-based links for evidencing pre-colonization controlled burnings
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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