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Writing for the week: two on the blog, one in the newsletter. Themes: Dark forests, mediocrity, hot take on the week’s developments in AI
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We now know that fires are necessary for healthy forests, that a century of fire suppression in the West has been disastrous.
21 July
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It is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.
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You cannot have a fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement in a forest you were never managing.
27 April
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