Posts Tagged ‘wildfire’

A Complex, Combustible Landscape

This nuanced statement by Tom Kenworthy, a former reporter, was spot on until the very end (my emphasis): The reasons that the desert Southwest is having another extreme fire season are complex. They include decades of poor forestry and livestock grazing practices, misguided federal firefighting efforts that have prevented low-intensity fires in Ponderosa pine forests…Continue Reading…

Romm's Sleight of Hand

Joe Romm never misses a disaster to beat the global warming drum. You name it– floods, fires, hurricanes–if they’re in the headlines, then he finds a way to connect them to climate change. It’s tricky stuff because he’s smart enough to know that no single climatic event or catastrophe can be pinned exclusively on greenhouse…Continue Reading…

The Commonality Between Two Meltdowns

This brilliant post by environmental historian Steve Pyne might be the first time that anyone has compared wildfire to Wall Street: Like economic transactions, fire is not a substance but a reaction ““ an exchange. It takes its character from its context. It synthesizes its surroundings. Its power derives from the power to propagate. To…Continue Reading…