cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1744658
This is a look at how it’s possible to limit the damage from the warmer world that fossil fuel burning has created by using:
traditional Indigenous forestry practices, including thinning the forest; cleaning up debris on the floor; and burning the debris and ground cover in a controlled way to prevent it from becoming fuel for wildfires — an act once banned by the provincial government.
This isn’t something to use instead of the phasing out fossil fuels; it’s one of many costs imposed by our failure to do it soon enough, and one which will become bigger if we keep on burning coal, tar, oil, and gas.
Indigenous people do have an interest in saving nature and the know-how, and don’t have any financial interest in destroying them