Friendly reminder that wildfires are natural here. They're complicated by climate change, but maybe not how we assume.https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/748603714898788352 …
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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.
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.
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.
Lots of well-meaning white climate folks are tweeting about Southern Cali fires this summer. The assumption is climate change = wildfires.
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.
and before white settler colonialists created 'housing' on any lands they could pry away from natives in the name of 'development'
If climate change causes ice in the poles to melt, which evaporate into the air, how can that also be tied to the cause of a drought? Hmm
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