The growing field of "firetech" is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.

The growing field of ​“firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.

  •  Sonori   ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 
    2•7 months ago

    The carbon cycle evolved to be near enough to circular to not have run itself out of carbon in millions of years. It maintains this balance though changes in evolution that take tens of thousands of years minimum, not fifty. We’ve all but doubled the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, we need to get as much of it out as soon as possible or we know what will happen.

    We’ve already done vast damage, and are well on our way to all but exterminating our reefs and a large slice of ocean life. That’s not can happen, that’s absolutely will happen unless we intervene. Much like with dams, the chance of some localized ecological damage is not just acceptable but a bargin compared to what doing without really means.

    •  jol   ( @jol@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
      1•7 months ago

      OK so? You didn’t understand what I said. We’re trying to fix the problem we caused by trying to change nature in unpredictable ways, with unpredictable consequences. Se need to focus on the root of the problem.

      •  Sonori   ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 
        2•7 months ago

        There are degrees of uncertainty, and there you don’t have to try a new, or in this case old, idea everywhere all at once. The problem is too mich carbon is in the air, getting as much of it out as quickly as practical is the priority. Nothing mentioned here seems to be at odds with cutting carbon emissions, so i don’t see why you seem to think that it’s one or the other.