| I'm not sure the title is accurate. We've known about fires like this for well over a century. The military wondered if it could weaponize them to destroy the enemy. The first real world use of such a weapon was in WWII when the USA firebombed Dresden with a quarter million incendiary bombs, decimating a city, sending a vortex of fire a mile into the air visible 500 miles away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa... It traumatized Kurt Vonnegut for life and he wrote Slaughterhouse Five about it, among other sci-fi works. I'm surprised the article didn't mention it, but it should be known. It might be a like a lot of the climate change stuff that thinks all this is new, but it's not. Makes ya wonder. Makes me wonder anyway. The darkness of humanity scares me way worse than some wild fires which are natural and necessary for the cycle of life. We are control freaks to some degree and encroaching more into mother nature's territory. Just because these things are having a bigger effect on human life, doesn't mean they haven't been around for a long time. There are more of us, so it's just math. Every predator species exhausts the environment of prey. We've reached a tipping point for sure. We aren't immune to the laws of nature. Too many livestock will destroy their habitat eventually too. Too many foxes will eat all the rabbits. Keep thousands of birds confined to small spaces, they'll die of viral infections too. We are animals too. We can over run our environment too. We've done it over and over. Just... now, there's nowhere left to go and we've created all these artificial boundaries around areas. Walling them off from natural migration. Koalas die that way. Deer and wolves die that way too. Artificial boundaries. The atmosphere is a pretty hard stop. Sure, there's the moon and Mars, but there aren't many rabbits there either. Or potatoes. You know I realized tonight, we have this natural instinct I think to get sick of ourselves. Forge ahead to new worlds. Get away from the oppressive people sapping us of our productivity and labor. We want to be free! But there's no where left to go. And now we are stuck with ourselves. And we can't get along. Some people want to oppress and some people want to be free. And there's no where to go. So, there's going to be a fight. Like those foxes over that last rabbit. |