I’ve heard mixed things about the “preventing the burn” – my current very very vague correct-me-if-I’m-wrong understanding is that “people actively preventing burns” was a 20th century thing, and nowadays there’s some kind of consensus of “okay we need to do more planned burns”, but, it’s sort of intrinsically tricky how to cause that or incentivize it. (because, it is still totally possible for people doing controlled burns to fuck up and cause major damage, and it’s some combination of ‘politically unpalatable’ and possibly also ‘actually a bad idea’ to just encourage people to burn things willy nilly)
I was going off wikipedia California Wildfires (search for “Post-2000”)
I’ve heard mixed things about the “preventing the burn” – my current very very vague correct-me-if-I’m-wrong understanding is that “people actively preventing burns” was a 20th century thing, and nowadays there’s some kind of consensus of “okay we need to do more planned burns”, but, it’s sort of intrinsically tricky how to cause that or incentivize it. (because, it is still totally possible for people doing controlled burns to fuck up and cause major damage, and it’s some combination of ‘politically unpalatable’ and possibly also ‘actually a bad idea’ to just encourage people to burn things willy nilly)