Wildfires and other fire incidents

[weatheriscool]

[Tadasuke]

According to a new article on Our World In Data, wildfires around the world are actually less common in the last few years than they were in the 2000s.

[wjfox]

According to a new article on Our World In Data, wildfires around the world are actually less common in the last few years than they were in the 2000s.

A nice attempt by you to minimise the impacts of climate change, but here's what the article had to say:

"...this is largely driven by a decline in burn rates in grasslands and savannas as a result of the expansion and intensification of agriculture.

This highlights the strong role that human activity and land use management play in wildfire extent, alongside weather- and climate-related factors. Both factors must be considered when trying to minimize the damage of increasing fire risk in a changing climate."

[Tadasuke]

Share of land area used for agriculture, 1961 to 2020: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar ... griculture

Agricultural area over the long-term, 1600 to 2023: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tota ... -long-term

Agricultural land is the sum of cropland and land used as pasture for grazing livestock. Agricultural land per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agri ... per-capita

This dataset is showing estimates of the total agricultural land area – which is the combination of cropland and grazing land – per person. It is measured in hectares per person: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tota ... per-person

Is agricultural land expanding? Change over the prior decade, 2021: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agri ... -less-land

Share of land area used for arable agriculture, 2020: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar ... griculture

Although a lot of land on Earth is dedicated to agriculture and pasture, land use per person is going down each decade. And precision fermentation can totally revolutionise how food is produced. For example, milk wouldn't come from animals, but from precision fermentation tanks, which would drastically reduced land and resources needed. Completely removing risk of wildfires may be impossible, but AI monitoring and robots fighting fires could lower chances of wildfires which have been happening for hundreds of millions of years so far.

[weatheriscool]