There are some countries like Australia and Japan that only increase investment in coal mining and burning. It's hard to starve such a big economies.
The author was Jacques Cousteau, the book was written in 1973.
Australia’s been dealing with giant wildfires forever. It’s not clear whether the fires are getting bigger or smaller with time, what impact forest management has in same, and whether smaller fires closer to population centers get more press and then make it seem like the problem is worse when it may not be.
Global heating is a slow burn, but we’re all poised to read any climate tragedy on it.
I'm pretty sure that it's very very clear that the fires are getting maybe not bigger, but definitely more frequent. Sure 1973 might have had a fire as bad as the one this year, the problem is that Australia is now expected to have such a fire every year or even multiple times a year, instead of once a decade or so.
Forest management used to focus on eliminating fires entirely. This has the impact of building up brush to the point where any fire became massive. They thought they were reducing fires, but they actually just increased amplitude and decreased frequency.
It’s kinda like dams for flood control, but with different time scales. A few dams for flood control reduces flood frequency massively, and we build up population centers in what was previously deserted floodplain. Then a flood (dam failure eg Oroville came pretty close) has a huuuuge systemic and possibly chain reaction, trading semiannual road blockages from minor flooding into one Whoa Noah every hundred years.
You can’t manager a tinder dry forest with fire anymore because the droughts and dry seasons are becoming hotter and dryer than in recorded history.
What land management would fix this issue because deforestation?
The only thing that probably needs to be reincorporated in Australia is indigenous cold fire burns when the time is right.
How fire management could help if forest fires are main tool to move from forest to veld - forest will burn and replaced by bushes and grass
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It's clear the fires are getting much bigger than in the past. The fires were called by Australian people "unprecedented".
In North America and Europe I would rather see these billionaires donate to land conservation which is as big a direct environmental issue as climate change. Bezos' $10B would have gone a long way to saving Florida's Everglades or helping the Lousisiana coastline.