TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests, and we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

over-suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.