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Here we go again: another article blaming climate change and not poor wildfire management.
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Here we go again: another article blaming climate change and not poor wildfire management.
- angelzen 5y agoWhy not both?
- mint2 5y agoMost of the article is about how climate change is expanding the territory of the disease, trying to blame wildfire management is a massive stretch as the only proven way fires lead to it is when firefighters dig up soil to make fire lines, and the article cited 1 out of the 4,000 firefighters got it in the wild fire that that person digging through their house ruins got it. The article clearly paints the picture of Climate change being the cause of the increase
- angelzen 5y agoThanks! I skimmed the article and it seemed to make the somewhat bizarre claim that the disease is correlated with the fires. On a more careful reading they were setting up the fire argument and I missed the punch line. I can't stand the 'let's throw in a bunch of personal narratives and turn a 3 paragraphs story into a 7 pages mini-novel' journalistic style.
- mint2 5y agoThe article is pretty clear on the fact that the link between wild fire and valley fever is not shown in research, and that wilderness fire fighters get the fever due to digging up soil (a proven vector that also means construction workers often get the virus) to make fire lines, rather than from smoke. And most of the article is talking about the climate conditions valley fever needs to thrive, and how the areas meeting those conditions are expanding with climate change, Oh but let’s blame poor wild fire management because it’s trendy.