Fires are raging across the world from Canada to Australia to South America to Sub-Saharan Africa. NASA created the map above that represents the fires as the red dots. An associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences stated, "Pretty much wherever you have vegetated surface, you have fire." Fires appear annually in Madagascar to clear the fields and replenish the soil nutrients. Most fires are due to farming methods. Some of these fires used to help the farm land, led to forest fires which severely impacted the air and land. These fires aren't just started by people, but also by dry weather, winds, and high heat. Climate change can start these fires in the future where human population begins to expand. The fires also have global impact. The world should be worried about these wildfires increasing and expect that they will worsen during peoples lifetimes.
Questions for discussion:
1) Should people be allowed to start fires to help their farm land?
2) How can people prevent these wildfires from starting?
3) What are other causes to these wildfires.
Link to article:
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Emiah,
ReplyDeleteInteresting article, but you need to find a way to connect it to politics too (remember this AP Government). For example, should the federal government help to deal with these fires or is this purely a state issue? Should the U.S. be doing more to stop climate change as it may contribute to wildfires?