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Paradise Burning
Why We All Need to Learn the Word “Anthropogenic”
By Subhankar Banerjee
The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in
flames and the smoke was so thick, so blanketing, that you could see it
miles away. Deep in Washington’s Olympic National Park, the aptly named
Paradise Fire, undaunted by the dampness of it all, was eating the
forest alive and destroying an ecological Eden. In this season of
drought across the West, there have been far bigger blazes but none
quite so symbolic or offering quite such grim news. It isn’t the size of
the fire (though it is the largest in the park’s history), nor its
intensity. It’s something else entirely -- the fact that it shouldn’t
have been burning at all. When fire can eat a rainforest in a relatively
cool climate, you know the Earth is beginning to burn.
And here’s the thing: the Olympic Peninsula is my home. Its destruction
is my personal nightmare and I couldn’t stay away.
full:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176029/tomgram%3A_subhankar_banerjee%2C_fire_at_world%27s_end
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