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Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires | Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up? (www.vox.com)

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Sri Lanka decided to ban imported fossil fuel derived fertilizer and failed to adequately replace it a few years back.

It is really possible to mess this one up, and that's only one of many places fossil fuels are used in agriculture

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 8 months ago

That at least is physically possible. Its also well under half the problem. So things get worse a bit more slowly if that's all we do

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