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All of these earlier fires in living landscapes all came with ecological boundaries.

You have to burn by season.

You have to burn by time of day.

You have to burn by what nature, what kind of vegetation is present and available to burn.

So there are all kinds of checks and balances.

And if you exceed that, which you can for a while, then the system degrades and you have

to abandon it.

You have to leave.

It fails.

But when you go to burning fossil fuels, it's basically unbounded.

I mean, you can burn day and night, winter and summer,

wet or dry, it doesn't matter. And so all those old ecological borders and constraints are gone.

And the problem is that there's no place to put all the effluent. So it's going in the atmosphere,

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