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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf
Naturally, many fires burn themselves out much to the detriment of humanity. Now that we have been fruitful and multiplied we need to manage the Earth that we live on (it is our domain, our possession, ours to rape).
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Can you explain that first statement?
You are tedious, but I'll try to clarify some terms here. The flora that serves as fuel is new growth. Old trees usually survive fire due the the extreme thickness of their bark and lack of accumulated fuel around their bases due to the shade they provide. Stands of new growth, the stuff that fuels canopy fires, grow in when clearcutting is used. This is why clearcutting is no longer common practice. Nowadays logging companies simply pick and choose the oldest, most valuable trees in an area. This is on national land. They are indeed being compensated, not only by the market for their products, but by the government's (dubious, if you consider they are removing only the most fire-resistant trees) rationale, for the service they provide in reducing the severity of fires.
This isn't even what your original post was about, but I guess I felt drunkenly compelled to address the straw-man you erected. Honestly, don't just make up some ghost hippies and paint them with your broad-ass brush. Show me some real ones we can point and laugh at.
Yeah, those safe haven communities work, they cost about 10,000 more per home, but these costs are happily absorbed by the home buyers. One good idea besides changing building materials, landscaping, was instead of building the houses around a golf course that serves as a huge fire alley, they build the course around the homes, making an isolated island.