Brush fires are... fires in native brush, which are a natural fuel, which burn, which is why you shouldn't build houses there.
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Ask indigenous peoples of Southern Cali: brush fires were traditionally allowed to burn, as they naturally do, in small and long fires.
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As settlers expanded their territory, they illogically built homes in brush fire land. Basically building neighborhoods in carpet bombs.
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And they demanded fire departments suppress nature -- that is, they demanded fire suppression. So we constantly put out small fires.
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But nature can only be suppressed for so long. You put out small brush fires for years, only to get a MASSIVE out-of-control fire later.
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Climate change spurs droughts like the one we just experienced in Southern California. That can make fire season longer. However....
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A prolonged drought, like the one we'd been under for so long, means less water and therefore less vegetation. Less brush that burns.
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We finally got rain this year. Drought is officially over. Yay! Now what? We got a lot of water, which means more vegetation. Oh oh.
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All that rain means the fire season may have gotten a later start this year. But it also means a lot more brush. Which... naturally burns.
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Lots of well-meaning white climate folks are tweeting about Southern Cali fires this summer. The assumption is climate change = wildfires.
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It's a little more complicated than that. Let's be nuanced. Let's understand that wildfires are... wild. Let's listen to indigenous peoples.
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Have you seen Fire Chasers on Netflix?
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No but hi!
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Hi!!! The show has a bunch of weird shit in it. And also, thousands of women forced to fight the fires through prison labor/slavery.
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That part is esp horrid. Don’t know if I reference it in this particular thread (pretty much do the same thread a couple times a year)...
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I was blown away at how normalized it was and the "redemption" narrative written for something so egregious.
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