Desenrasco asked: How scared should I be about wildfires?

To consider it in the bluntest of terms, wildfires kill surprisingly few people: perhaps hundreds around the world each year, compared to thousands from floods and hundreds of thousands from heatwaves. That is, of course, of little comfort to the people across Spain and France returning to burned-out homes, or to the families of firefighters, locals and tourists who have died in the past few weeks. But what scares me far more is the smoke. Recent studies peg the global death toll from wildfire smoke at 1.5 million people per year. The wildfire season in Canada three years ago was so bad, one study found, that more than 80,000 people died from smoke inhalation – and 20,000 of them were in Europe, as winds carried the pollution over the Atlantic.

Ugh, no.

What's scariest is the amount of carbon they're putting in the atmosphere. And how these extreme fires cause thunderstorms that genereate lightning strikes that perpetuate the fire, dumping even more carbon in the atmosphere.

The positive feedback loop's long term death toll is much scarier than just tens of thousands of people dying in Europe this summer.

Random CEO out there: Grok, what am I supposed to understand in this article?

growth is connected to progression. the story of how next generation will be better. but the betterment is promised through material imcrease. more roads, more swimming pools, greater sporting events, better standards, faster internet.

futurism is the contract of progression. it faithfully promises us flying cars, moon travel, eradication of cancer, the end of poverty, zero pollution plains, hyper realistic simulations, green growth cities. maybe not now, but eventually.

it is a religion of progression. the decentralized religion of the machine. adapting to the temperature of the people. studying the people to figure how to manage them.

but the machine only works through people. it is the people that let themselves become coggs.

humans are like elements; we can be fire or water. as fire we destroy, as water we flow. as water we become the ocean, as fire we disrupt, we become great, everybody will remember us. but nothing will be left. we can choose to be or not to be.

so why would we choose not to be? why would we choose fire when water keeps us afloat? it is because they dont see they are hurting themselves. they dont see how the fires will engulf everything.

water shows how letting be remediates the world. turning us away from the competing, the machine; towards the samworking, samliving, samholding, humanity.

our task is therefore to turn fire into water