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There’s one key villain in the L.A. wildfires. Any student of history knows who it is
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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We do need to acknowledge that certain climates like historical fire zones and the swamps of south florida were never well fit environments for development. We need strategies for moving people out of those areas rather than dumping money into trying to artificially make them fit our preferences.
These are places that took relatively minor damage from lower-intensity fires in past years. A lot of places that burned are well into town.
There is some amount of moving people out of the wildland-urban interface that makes sense, but we also need to act by:
Climate change is certainly exacerbating the situation but from what I’ve read these areas are also historically acclimated to burning https://www.coastal.ca.gov/fire/ucsbfire.html
Yes, there's a history of lower-intensity fire, of the sort which doesn't threaten structures at scale.
Right but if the low intensity ones are repressed that leads to higher intensity ones plus climate change exacerbates the situation making former low intensity ones higher intensity due to increased drying and erosion cycles. Makes the most sense not to allow development imo.
Chaparral and grasslands (what that area has) regrow pretty quickly. This isn't problem of fuel accumulating over decades as has happened in the Sierras. You'd need to be removing vegetation every year, which would also kill off the native plants.
The frequent burns are what’s killing the native plants. Burns aren’t supposed to happen this frequently, and invasives are crowding out the drought resistant natives.