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by BobJackienine 1772 days ago
You're assuming that wildfires cause damage always, most of those places you listed purposefully burn huge fires to create humus in order to grow crops to feed the overpopulated Earth. I was watching a off-road 4x4 channel where there were indigenous Australians setting fire a huge grassfields in Kimberly outback because that's the way their ancestors always did it and there was no other way to clear 14 ft tall grass in the entire valley.
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No, I am not assuming anything, I gave you the facts, so 4.7 bn trees was past year in Russia, Australia's 2019-2020 more than 10 million hectares of land burned, California 2020 4,397,809 acres (1,779,730 ha).

So, yes indigenous people used those techniques, to replenish forest but biologist say that 2019-2020 was not normal event. Especially considering number of animals burned was around 3 billion. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-53549936

So, of course they will stop burning when there is nothing to burn anymore, they will stop burning. Also our ability to plant new so far was not exemplary, and as I said, ability of sapling to sequester CO2 is very small. And each tree needs 15-20 years to grow to full size that can sequester more considerable amounts of CO2.

One more issue with trees worth mentioning is that past certain temperature, trees like humans, suffer a heat shock so they start dying. Which is again complication for growing new forest as saplings get exposed to higher temperature (not having collective cooling effect of fully grown forest) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.12417