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Jul 15, 2022Liked by Dean V. Williamson

Thank you for this excellent report which confirms what I already thought but had no proof.

Again I have no proof but I think the increase in the extent of fires in more recent years is due to human encroachment into areas which are vulnerable to fire anyway. I suspect that many of the fires are due to human activity either directly or indirectly.

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Jul 17, 2022Liked by Dean V. Williamson

There you go again, bringing in data! At the moment climate change is a religious movement because other religious movements around the notion of a supreme being are no longer in vogue. Whether we can get through this period of foolishness about our control over huge natural forces remains to be seen. The planet obviously has forces not fully modeled well with complex feedback loops not fully appreciated. But we see the effort in https://arstechnica.com/science/2006/02/2815/ where they walk the fine line of those forces.

The forces of anti-progress are tied into climate change. Forest management is needed only because we are trying to control nature. One think society ought to benefit by using some of nature's bounty if we are going to intervene. But we need to improve that. NM has seen disasters as a result of controlled burns that Western controlled.

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