I saw a program a while back where Australia was flying light aircraft over forest areas dropping small incendiaries. Traditionally the native people had lit fires regularly to drive game, but now they had moved out and were living on social the undergrowth was building up to the extent that fires were destroying the larger trees as well as the undergrowth. We know not what we do when we take our behaviour out of the natural cycle.
True, although Canada is basically one giant forest with a few people living in it lol. It would be impossible to maintain it size compared to population.
The one thing that is always true about nature is everything is always changing, it is when it starts happening fast I wonder if man is involved.
Mother nature maintained the forests very well until we humans intervened. Canada is just like America in that when Mother Nature tries to fix things we humans rush in and stop what she is trying to do. I wonder how many small fires we have extinguished instead of letting them burn and clean up the forests of all the debris. Not only are we the cause of the massive wildfires we are also the cause of untold millions of trees being killed by the Pine Bark Beetle simply because we refuse to let minor fires burn and clean things up.
I doubt it will be dark enough for long enough to do any great harm, though yields may drop a bit. It is the war in Ukraine that is really going to cause mass starvation, those huge wheat fields feed Northern Africa and the Middle East. We will be alright, but a lot of other people will die, and no doubt the Soviets will be making political capital out of the capitalists 'Stealing' a large part of 'Their' country and stopping them supplying wheat.
That's a good point
