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Why did behaviorally modern humans and no other multicellular species in the history of the Earth gain the capacity to transform an entire planet? Biology alone cannot explain this – Homo sapiens is just another …
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Millennia ago, our species reshaped the ecology of this planet and we have continued to reshape it ever more rapidly and intensively ever since. Today, we directly use or alter nearly all of earth’s terrestrial …
I loved this graphic-novel-style explainer from @xulinillu on how fires work in forests, how indigenous people have mastered the art of burning, and what we need to do for the next generation: https://thenib.com/prescribed-burn-forest-fires/
I was invited to put this piece together in the Guardian. I am honored to get such an invite, but more so honored to help change the dialogue in support of indigenous Eco-Cultural Revitalization. #EndowActionNow https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/16/california-wildfires-cultural-burns-indigenous-people
Whether its California, Oregon, the Pantanal, the Amazon, Argentina, Australia, Siberia, FIRE MANAGEMENT--moving beyond essential emergency measures to manage changing fire regimes across landscapes--must become a higher priority for the scientific community and policy-makers.
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