• ram@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Historically many indigenous people did this in the form of cultural burns. We wouldn’t even have this problem if we hadn’t outlawed it and committed a cultural genocide against their teachings. The myopia of our society is frustrating and continues to cause problems for us year after year. ^^;

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      1 year ago

      These things do matter, but also, our weather patterns are dramatically changing. With record heat waves and dry spells coming in constantly, we’d still have this problem whether we’d lost the knowledge of forest stewardship or not.

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        1 year ago

        Ya, it’s a symptom of the intersection of several issues. We see the wildfires and just focus on “fix the wildfires and then forget about it”, but the fact is that things will continue to get worse, even if we started on making things better right now.

        But the longer we wait, the worse it’ll get, and the faster we’ll get there

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          1 year ago

          Agreed. And while I suspect this place is better than reddit for it, I still won’t openly say what I believe the solution is as it’s not a wise thing to post on public fora. Systemic changes are needed.