.
And as the article says, if you doubt it, just ask California.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
"Winter isn't coming, prepare for the age of fire" welcome to the Pyrocene age.
- Thread starter Chrome Hyena
- Start date
And as the article says, if you doubt it, just ask California.
OP
OP
not sure what movie that is, but the article talks about how a lot of the west of the U.S. will basically be in almost perpetual fires with small breaks. i can imagine that'd seem world ending to those people.
OP
OP
TRue, but it doesn't change that there will basically be huge fires now yearly, and growing larger and larger per year, especially on the West coast. And Climate change basically is like a super charger for the fire age.
He's talking about Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Also, in that one, humans destroyed everything with some kind of attack or event we don't know about. It happened overnight.
Good joke though.
The Earth isn't entering an age of fire.
Did I say it was okay? It just isn't going to be an 'Age of Fire.' Maybe I am misreading the point of the article.
OP
OP
im saying its too late. the minute we entered the industrial age and began clear cutting and burning more biomass than the land/oceans can absorb, we were destined for this. Also funny enough, both will feed each other. fire feeds climate change which feeds more fire/drought, which feeds more climate change which feeds more destruction of water tables due to industry and clear cutting etc etc.
OP
OP
Well it looks like the Anthropocene is directly responsible for the pyrocene age:
"In the developed world, industrial combustion arranges agriculture, built environments, peri-urban settings and reserves for wildlands — all the stuff available for landscape fire. Societies even fight landscape fire with the counterforce of industrial fire in the form of pumps, engines, aircraft and vehicles to haul crews. The interaction of the two realms of fire determines not only what gets burned, but also what needs to be burned and isn't. It changes the road fire drives down.
Advertisement
Add up all the effects, direct and indirect — the areas burning, the areas needing to be burned, the off-site impacts with damaged watersheds and airsheds, the unraveling of biotas, the pervasive power of climate change, rising sea levels, a mass extinction, the disruption of human life and habitats — and you have a pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a Pyrocene. The contours of such an epoch are already becoming visible through the smoke."
The Road? Nah, that was nuclear war I think. There is a passage in the book that begins something along the lines of 'The clocks stopped at 1.17am' then goes on to describe distant explosions and the man then starts filling the bath.