The growing field of “firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.
The growing field of “firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.
Humans are just so arrogant that they think they can fix nature. There’s forests evolved together with fires. If you prevent fires, you can do more damage than good.
The carbon cycle evolved to be near enough to circular to not have run itself out of carbon in millions of years. It maintains this balance though changes in evolution that take tens of thousands of years minimum, not fifty. We’ve all but doubled the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, we need to get as much of it out as soon as possible or we know what will happen.
We’ve already done vast damage, and are well on our way to all but exterminating our reefs and a large slice of ocean life. That’s not can happen, that’s absolutely will happen unless we intervene. Much like with dams, the chance of some localized ecological damage is not just acceptable but a bargin compared to what doing without really means.
OK so? You didn’t understand what I said. We’re trying to fix the problem we caused by trying to change nature in unpredictable ways, with unpredictable consequences. Se need to focus on the root of the problem.
There are degrees of uncertainty, and there you don’t have to try a new, or in this case old, idea everywhere all at once. The problem is too mich carbon is in the air, getting as much of it out as quickly as practical is the priority. Nothing mentioned here seems to be at odds with cutting carbon emissions, so i don’t see why you seem to think that it’s one or the other.
Nature isn’t unpredictable. It’s done the same thing forever. We are the ones fucking it up.
What’s hard to predict are the consequences of us further messing with it. We always think we can just tweak things. Like fixing forest fires or seeding clouds of sulfur. We’re just naive apes with fancy tools.
If we valued a homeostatic, intentional civilization we could be the immune system of the planet instead of the capitalistic cancer we currently are.