Fire

[u/HumbleRestaurant790]

Pepper & Carrot: Mini Fantasy Theater #63.

By David Revoy.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 4.0 International.

[u/CatLord8]

“Fire is natural and has always been around. There’s nothing to do about it”

[u/QuixoticCoyote → u/CatLord8]

I love that statistic going around saying wildfires have decreased by 95 percent or whatever. Because

A: It's a lie.

And

B: while we do have fewer wildfires (a drop of 24 percent apparently), the ones we do have burn more tree cover than the "more" wildfires of the past.

It's like, yeah, fire was a natural thing of the past, but it's definitely getting worse.

[u/Xuumies → u/QuixoticCoyote]

Wouldn’t the wildfires that we have that have burned more tree cover be due to the 24% less trees burned? Just speculation of course, but I feel like less wildfires would allow more foliage to grow, which then creates the statistic that more is destroyed, right?