Wildfires and Indigenous Ways to Stop Them

Wildfires are on everyone’s mind these days (and in everyone’s lungs it seems, too). Whether it’s the recent and ongoing wildfires in Canada — which are still generating severe and extreme air quality alerts all across the United States — or the all too common bushfires in Australia, these kinds of uncontrolled burns are becoming more common due to climate change-induced droughts and heat waves. These wildfires are incredibly dangerous and devastating to our health and to our built and natural environments. The more common they become, the more lives and infrastructure we risk losing. In the US between 2022 and 2023, for example, wildfires were responsible for $3.2 billion in damage. And in Australia, between 2019 and 2020, the bushfires caused an estimated $4–5 billion in damage and economic losses for farmers and the food sector. <a href="https://michaelshank.medium.com/wildfires-and-indigenous-ways-to-stop-them-5924143ac883">Website</a>