I value a world where hot summers' don't flood the news with evacuation warnings with stories of people and wildlife losing their precious homes. I envision a future with proper wildfire management that responds to the current state of climate change and values our ecosystem. Worsening climate change and wildfire act together as a positive feedback loop cycle (dry land and lightning equals likely fire), and something needs to change. Possible interventions include increasing budgets so that these areas that are wildfire hotspots can be regularly maintained with preplanned actions in place. I persoanlly plan on advocating for simple changes like these by sharing protests and why change is needed on my social media and as a result, put pressure on governments to take action.
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Hi Michelle, I totally agree that it's frustrating to see hot summers constantly making headlines in tandem with people and wildlife losing their homes. You're absolutely right about climate change and wildfires feeding into each other creating what seems like this never ending loop. Would love to see how you are promoting this issue on social media in an engaging way!
Hey Michelle,
I agree with what you are saying regarding the positive feedback loop and that it must be limited with the increasing impacts of climate change. Increasing budgets would help to limit the extent of spread, but it is hard to pinpoint an exact location of where a fire will break out!
Hi Michelle, thank you for sharing! I totally agree that small changes like sharing protests and values on social media would work in pressurizing more climate actions.
Hi Michelle, investing in suppressive measures in wildfire hotspots does sound like a potentially viable idea to reduce fires. However, in terms of maintaining wildfire hotspots, what are some examples of such suppressive or preventive actions?
Hi Michelle, great thoughts and personally I don't want fire headlines to become normalized as summer's traditions. As much as the populations are suffering, on the other hand, social media and news corporation are hungry for those attention-grabbing posts and many comes with great biases which create even more doubt and lack of trust in our society.