Big Picture Science - Catching Fire
We have too much “bad fire.” Not only
destructive wildfires, but the combustion that powers our automobiles and
provides our electricity has generated a worrying rise in atmospheric carbon
dioxide. And that is driving climate change which is adding to the frequency of
megafires. Now we’re seeing those effects in “fire-clouds,” pyrocumulonimbus
events.
But there’s such a thing as “good fire.”
Indigenous peoples managed the land with controlled fires, reaped the benefits
of doing so, and they’re bringing them back.
So after millions of years of controlling
fire, is it time for us to revisit our attitudes and policies, not just with
regard to combustion, but how we manage our wildfires?
Guests:
- David Peterson - Meteorologist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Stephen Pyne - Emeritus professor at Arizona State University, fire historian, urban farmer, author of “The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next”
- Richard Wrangham - Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and author of "Catching Fire: How Coooking Made Us Human"
- Margo Robbins - Co-founder and president of the Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC), organizer of the Cultural Burn Training Exchange (TREX) that takes place on the Yurok Reservation twice a year, and an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe
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