A thing about the California fires is that there are long stretches of drought in the American west's recent history (past few hundred years), "megadroughts" that can last for sixty years or more. European new arrivals just happened to settle the place during a rainy spell.
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There are useful things we can learn from civilizations that write things down. But there's no such record in California and the Pacific Northwest. Even basic facts like "there are enormous subduction earthquakes under Seattle, don't build a city here" took too long to figure out
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Replying to @Pinboard
Oral traditions of First Nations documented a lot of this stuff. Being proven out more and more by research
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Replying to @GeoffWherrett
They did! But they also documented a lot of fiction, in a way that is hard to disentangle.
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