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Did not the current wildfires in Alberta, Canada start with an attempted "controlled burn" gone awry?
by prvc 3y ago
Did not the current wildfires in Alberta, Canada start with an attempted "controlled burn" gone awry?
- DannyBee 3y agoSo? Just because a process sometimes fails does not mean the solution is to change the process, and if you do, it doesn't mean the result will end up better overall. Expected value and all that.
- prvc 3y agoAlso, it's not clear why burning should be used instead of, say, selective logging, or some other manual method of moving the material somewhere other than into the atmosphere.
- MrVandemar 3y agoMany ecosystems require fire. Fire is natural and plants and animals are adapted to it. So much so, that if you don't burn (or equally you burn too often) you can wind up making some species extinct. "Selective logging" I'm afraid is not remotely an effective way to control fire. The fuel loads are often not the trees, but the leaf litter, shrubs, bushes and so on.