WTF Can We Do About Deadly Wildfires?
From the tragedy in Hawaii \u2014 which has left at least 115 dead, and over a thousand more missing, making it the deadliest blaze in the last century of US history \u2014 to recent fires in Canada, California, Indonesia and Brazil, the world seems to be engulfed in a megafire crisis fueled by climate change. We bring on a panel of practitioners to discuss what\u2019s behind these megafires, and how we can work to mitigate the crisis. Matt Weiner is the CEO of the nonprofit Megafire Action, with a background in policymaking; Lenya Quinn-Davidson is Director of University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network; and Chad Hanson is the Director of the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, a research and advocacy organization focused on federal public forestlands.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices