"Scientists have also prominently mentioned the role of non-climate influences in the intensity of the firestorm, such as the introduction of highly combustible nonnative plants, as well as weather patterns that happen naturally."
This is a case where humans have made life brittle, and then #ClimateChangeIsTheLastStraw
#Maui #wildfire #Hawaii
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/12/hawaii-fires-climate-change-maui/
A message to examine your community's brittleness:
"And while 2.1 million #NorthCarolina homes are in the #WildlandUrbanInterface, North Carolinians have relatively little experience with #wildfires, he noted.
“The combination of #WUI and a ‘fire naive’ population could potentially cause major loss of human life in the eastern U.S., similar to what we’ve seen now in #Hawaii and previously in California,” Scheller said."
#ClimateChangeIsTheLastStraw. Even the non-native grasses that burn so well are only a symptom of a much deeper underlying issue:
"This historical and modern #plantation economy has taken a tremendous toll on #water in particular, draining Indigenous ecologies of their natural moisture. #Lahaina, once known as the Venice of the Pacific, has been transformed into a parched desert, which is part of what has made it so vulnerable to fire."
It's been land theft and water theft at a large scale for a long time. And the disaster capitalism is unfolding over these days and weeks, with "land-grabs" of streams, and offers coming in to residents to sell their ancestral land at a literal fire sale.
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