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"the region recovered" Yeah, because the volcano stopped erupting. This current disaster is not short-term.

• blisterpeanuts 6y ago
  You mean the forest fires? Depending on the region, they'll abate either from human intervention or seasonal snow/rain, or a combination.
  • redisman 6y ago
    Until the next year or two when they come back again bigger from a unseasonably warm summer and unseasonably wet winter which grows even more fuel. And then again and then again and then again, growing worse each time until the forest doesn't grow back again at some point.
    • gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
      > until the forest doesn't grow back again at some point gotta love this doom-obsessed gedankenexperiment
      • redisman 6y ago
        https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-wildfire-unlikely-recover-may-convert-grasslands https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-w... > Even 15 years post-fire, as many as 80% of the plots the researchers surveyed still contained no new trees.