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  • Tgo_up@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    True, they don’t have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.

    I’m not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.

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      16 hours ago

      Very hard call. It is rainy season, but drought during rainy season. If it rains next week, problem solved. If you remove all vegetation now, and it rains next week, mud slides.

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        45 minutes ago

        Mud slides comes when you remove too many trees. You can remove a lot of shrubbery without increasing chances of mud slide.

    • Hirom@beehaw.org
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      17 hours ago

      That’s possible.

      Also, AC could probably prevent all heat-related death. But using AC in all buildings on earth, all the time, is not a viable option.