It's that 3% which are driven by the forces of nature to scales which human beings have no ability to affect.
Ask any wildland firefighter, and they'll tell you as much: if Mother Nature wants something to burn, it's going to burn, and all we can do is get people out of the way.
Ask any wildland firefighter, and they'll tell you as much: if Mother Nature wants something to burn, it's going to burn, and all we can do is get people out of the way.
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The first-arriving firefighters said this on the radio: "L.A., Patrol 69, start strike teams, this fire is headed to the coast."
https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1993-1102_OldTopangaFire/1993-1102_OfficialReport_OldTopangaIncident.htm
the problem is that we built cities in that high-intensity, stand-replacing fire regime.
This is not a problem of lack of water or firefighting resources or anything else. It's quite simply beyond human power.
And my nuclear war interests led me to read accounts of the Peshtigo firestorm (😱)