I am a bit wary of arguments from pollution or other indirect deaths due to fire. (I do accept them, but I am still wary.) For example, the 2019-20 bushfire se

I am a bit wary of arguments from pollution or other indirect deaths due to fire. (I do accept them, but I am still wary.) For example, the 2019-20 bushfire season is cited as 33 direct and 417 indirect deaths. Direct deaths vary mostly with fire detection, response, and evacuation. Indirect deaths vary mostly with fire volume and wind patterns (19-20 killed so many because the weather abnormally pushed pollution into heavily populated areas, and kept it there for an abnormally long time). It seems hard to control fire volume (and really hard to control weather patterns), while it seems easy to control detection, response, and evacuation. I do take your point that it seems easy to control fire volume specifically for slash-and-burn agriculture in South East Asia, as those are mostly artificially created fires and we could stop them from doing that.