Environmental policy expert ShellenbergerMD says despite claims California's fires are “unprecedented,' in fact top forest scientists in the US state are all emphasising the blazes are not unusual.
Environmental policy expert Michael Shellenberger says despite claims California's fires are “unprecedented," in fact top forest scientists in the US state are all emphasising the blazes are not unusual. “They say it doesn’t happen every year, that you see fires like this that are started by lightning in the middle of the summer, but it happens every decade or so,” Mr Shellenberger told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and thousands of people have been placed under evacuation orders as blazes continues to burn through California’s forests and shrub lands. “We have to get out of the idea though, that fires are bad,” Mr Shellenberger said. He said Californian forests, for the most part, “need fires to clear the underbrush and make room for new life”. He said US President Donald Trump has faced criticism for suggesting the forests need to be raked to remove the underbrush.
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