> This becomes especially pressing, says Westerling, when you consider that every future fire season in the American West is likely to be worse than the last, on average. “How do you adapt to that? It’s not just California,” he says. “It would be the whole West Coast and the Rockies and parts of Canada and Alaska all going off on a regular basis. So just the magnitude of managing fires over that geographical scale simultaneously is staggering, right down to the psychological impact of living with that.”
So we're just at the tip of the iceberg, and experts (from a different part of the article) are saying the worst is at least 10 years away.
So we're just at the tip of the iceberg, and experts (from a different part of the article) are saying the worst is at least 10 years away.