Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate /
"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : detours
- The fiery myths that undermine climate solutions
- The snag forest
- You can't fight the wind with a chain saw
- The "megafire" narrative
- What's the real "carbon bomb"?
- The economics of deceit
- What you aren't being told about "thinning"
- An inconvenient woodpecker
- Climate change enablers
- The logging collaboratives
- Fire in the east
- Fire-safe communities
- Keep it in the forest, keep it in the ground
- A new wildfire vocabulary
- Moving beyond the politics of fear.