The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon
The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon
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The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon
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The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon
The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon
Nobody focuses on "black carbon," because we can't prevent wildfires, as they are a natural occurrence even without climate change. They are happening more frequently due to climate change, and firefighters try to control the burn in various ways, but it's a lot easier to work on the human-sourced CO2 and Methane than it is to address wildfires. The frequency and effect is a symptom of our own output.
If we can get a hold on our own emissions, wildfires will become less frequent as well.
Actually, we can limit wildfires with controlled burns
That's one of the things I meant by "various methods," but a controlled burn isn't preventing the burn itself, just (hopefully) its spread. The fire is going to happen regardless, because it's a natural and necessary occurrence.
If our various governments could be bothered to actually penalize the worst polluters and invest in actually clean energy sources, the wildfires would sort themselves out; we're the ones that are making them worse.
yeah I would say a bigger deal is we could stop our emissions but if we still destroy our ecology its not going to matter much.