At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.
Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?
Are we going to need more and more airplanes?
This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.
Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosp
... Show more...At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.
Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?
Are we going to need more and more airplanes?
This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.
Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?
Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?
And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.
In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.
We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.
Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.
I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.
I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.
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