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Considering the amount of media about San Francisco and red skies, you’d think that was the place that burned.

Any actual coverage of the fires and their real impact, lost of natural habitat, sinks into irrelevancy.

If a place burns and San Francisco doesn’t notice, do we still talk about it?

California has fairly hot, dry summers and a lot of trees; fires are going to happen fairly regularly. Everything in the ecosystem has evolved to deal with periodic fire, except for the humans and their trillion-dollar companies and multimillion-dollar houses. The fire isn’t the threat to the ecosystem; the humans are.

It is my understanding that the fires are unusually intense and a threat even to fire-adapted ecosystems.

in large part because the high fuel load from aggressive suppression efforts (some contribution from anthro temperature forcing)

indigenous fire management kept underbrush under control results in cooler fires.

The main issue is people think it's pretty to live in places that normally burn.

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