PMT - risk management of wildfires: adaptation

Question 1

what will happen if we dont change our lifestyles in terms of the frequency of wildfires?

Answer 1

they are significantly heightening the greenhouse effect increasing co2 levels (Harbours the conditions needed for wildfires - dry)

if temperatures continue to increase we will experience unprecedented changes in wildfire patterns

Question 2

why do some people argue we shouldnt intervene with wildfires at all?

Answer 2

fatalistic outlook

not worth the money or resources just for it to start up again

there are ecological benefits to wildfires like eradicating disease and stimulation of seed germination so we should adapt to wildfires and let them burn

Question 3

an example of where a wildfire has done more harm than good?

Answer 3

Jasper, Alberta, Canada

the fires were frequently extinguished so the forest became thick and deprived of light
preventing growth of other trees and its mostly pine now
no fires = no eradication of disease and harmful insects so the mountain pine beetle has taken over