Why California's Wildfire Protection is Making it Worse
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- Wildfires are a fact of life in California but extent and devastation in the American West feel dramatic this year: More than 5 million acres of uncontrolled fires lead to incredible footage on the news & reports of orange skies in Oakland or San Francisco. ↠Subscribe: th-cam.com/users/TerraMaterO...
The 2020 fire season has broken almost every record in terms of frequency and ferocity.
We analyzed several factors like climate change, housing development and fire suppression & management to see what's behind the largest and most destructive wildfires in the state’s history and what can be done to solve the worsening problem?
This video is part of our wildfire series, covering forest & bush fires around the world to create a better understanding and see how they are connected. Have a look at our wildfire playlist ( • Are We Making it Worse... ) and be sure to subscribe and turn the notifications on so you won't miss a video!
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Executive Producer: Eva Schmidt
Motion Graphics: Elias Freiberger
Voice Over: Julian Nightingall
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Sound Design: Hupo Weninger
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Quotes & Sources:
[1] NY Times / NASA Terra & Aqua satellite data: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
[2] NY Times / NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, National Interagency Fire Center: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
[3] CAL FIRE: California Fire Hazard Severity Zones (FHSZ), egis.CALFIRE:
gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/789d...
[4] UC Berkeley / Boston University / George Washington University; Michael L. Mann et al.: Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: www.sciencedirect.com/science...!
[5] San Francisco Chronicle, California Fire Map & Tracker:
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/...
[6] University of Colorado-Boulder, Nathan Mietkiewicz et al. In the Line of Fire: Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in the U.S. (1992-2015) www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/3/50...
[7] US Forest Service: Misconceptions and Benefits of Fire: • Misconceptions and Ben...
[8] US Forest Service: Black-backed Woodpeckers and Fire: • Black-backed Woodpecke...
Hey friends, have a look at our video on the impact of Australia's wildfires on the koala population here: th-cam.com/video/eBIlOfvYVqw/w-d-xo.html or watch our entire wildfire series!
Currently, cities in the American west face the world's(!) worst air quality as smoke from wildfires turned the skies an orange-red. From the Mexican border to the forests of Washington State, the West Coast is ablaze. And let's be honest: These wildfires are not “natural” - humans made them worse at every step!
Pretty ballsy title
I think best solutions is nitrogen bomb drop in fires
I'm a 20 year old from California born and raised and I find it so frustrating when people refuse to acknowledge the human causes of these fires. The expansion of the suburbs, the repression of the natural fire cycle, the purposeful ignorance of California Native American land management techniques, the climate crisis; it's all so obvious to anyone who lives here and bothers to look at the situation for what it is. I love my home state for its diverse natural beauty and I hate seeing it so horribly managed.
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@Old Soul yeah. Lots of innocent, poor creatures were completely wiped out of existence due to the Industrial Revolution. Let's pay our debt.
Most of the creatures were destroyed for the welfare of only one species Homo sapiens.
We have killed creatures more than a mass extinction. They didn't do any harm to us but we destroyed their habitats and their population. 😣😢😭
Let's save nature.🌍🌎🌏🌱🌲🌳🌴🌵🌾🌿☘🍀🍁🍂🍃🦁🐯🐆🐎🐂🐃🐄🐖🐐🐗🐪🐫🐕🐒🐈
With humans: 🐘🔫😒
@@F-18 Yeah bro. Well said my friend
@yerb Yeah. This world will become *GREEN*
As a wild land firefighter up here in Canada, I am of the opinion that we need to empower our fire response organizations to adopt a policy of ignition in and around the urban interface. We would need to become fire starters as well as extinguishers for our respective geographic areas. I would surmise the pincer attacking the burning season, by conducting burns both spring and fall. Taking advantage of the precipitation these two seasons coincide with. This would require more funding to the respective national programs. Not something that would be easily sellable politically, which I suspect is why it hasn’t happened. The programs would require full time workers as there are a bit more precautions ergo more training. As it stands the respective programs only have certain positions at full time status and operate a skeleton personnel operation during the off season. This results in high turnover rate in our personnel from year to year, as most don’t see the point in achieving a long career in these respective organizations.
These catastrophic fires are the result of, you stated human colonization, but also because of becoming two good at what we do in our attack methods. Not letting fires do what they were meant to do, in controlled circumstances, thus the need for burning requirement to these fire suppression organizations. In closing, what is needed is public support and pressure on our governments to fully fund these programs. To not do so will mean these fires will get worse. Mii’e.
Miigwech
Well said
Actually we are destroying ourselves. 🔥
Seems like 2020 is the trailer for 2021
Nwo
No plz
Oh my GOD!
So far, it was
The brave fire fighters often only make headway putting out fires when the weather changes favorably. It cools, winds drop, humidity goes up, or it rains. The weather is a major factor in fire behavior.
the sad thing is , everywhere face the same problem. the forest are all gone. im worried that future will be running out of hopes and trees. wildfires are actually can be natural disaster but humans just make it worse.
You're right -> humans make it worse!
Change is desperately needed here.
@@terramater Human dont like changes, human are very static... People were already warning about nature preservation in the 60s, but nobody cared
There are more trees in the USA today then there were 100 years ago.
don´t let the california dream die. Runing away is not going to solve problems
Terra Matter is an Austrian Company ( I think ) But still cares about other Countries.....Good Job !!
It's care about our Beautiful ❤️ Blue Planet Earth 🌍🌎🌏 not other Countries.....
Countries created by some biggest idiot Human but not Earth..
Austrians are not king but are king makers .
They are excellent in every field
Thanks, that's really lovely!
We all share planet earth together and therefore should work together to save it!
right! they're from Vienna/Austria.
Why do you find that surprising
Thats sad but I have a question what would happen if there is so much wild fires that there were only a thousand trees left on earth will the earths oxygen run out and will it be limited and will that ever happen
Nope. As long as there is enough cytho plancton in the oceans oxygen levels should be okay. Plus trees are not the only sources of oxygen. Grass for instance grows extremly fast to some extent and thus would fill the gap. The bigger problem is that the carbon stored in those woods get released in the air and thus will further advance the problem of droughts and water shortage.
@@burninghard but ocean oxygen levels also decreasing now cause of high level pollution and warming of ocean water....
Now I know thanks for replying
Man has to pay his price for all the destruction he made
@Ryker hmm? Really arrogant of you.
This is very misanthropic and ignores the material and structural realities of the state and capitalism.
@Ryker Wrong, the majority of destruction is caused by a few. That is powerful businesses, the wealthy, etc. You're being very misanthropic, but besides that you're assigning some kind of agency to something that doesn't have it -- the earth, nature, fire etc. That's incoherent and wrong to say the least.
WE ARE!!! SOOO TRUE :-(
HUMANS REALLY NEED TO REALIZE THE IMPACTS OF THEIR ACTIONS!!!
indeed.
Nothing more to add. :/
Why don't you make a documentary just like "Our Planet" Series
yes a good idea
They've made a bunch of documentaries already. I think a couple of them are on Netflix.
Recently found your channel. It's amazing, one of my new favorites. Amazing topics and really interesting concept. Keep it up!
You make a strong case. An invidious, or difficult, state.
This is actually eyes opening 😳
Great to hear, thanks!
Share with all ur family friends amd socials etc. #terramatters
Dont make weird partys
first... but sad cause I am first. we need more people watching these stuff
Always on time! 🙌🏽
Thanks! We're trying our best do address these important topics to as many people as possible.
yes think my favorite documentary channel is dying but good thing I see the advertisement on youtube
use pine leaves and seeds as biofuel for producing electricity like himachal pradesh in INDIA
I hope we stay alive to see 2030
Edit: Brazil is on fire and te stupid president wont help or neither rethink the extensive agricultural methods and water management that is related to the pantanal fire... Hope this year rains... Because last year was a DRY summer and the sugar canes are making the soil so dry and sandy that looks like desert in some places.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
So sad to hear that sugar canes are making the soil desert like. Are you living next to the Pantanal?
P.S.: We're currently working on a new video about the current Pantanal fires.
google spotted owl debate and logging industry...hence fire fuel
(California firefighter, 1967-2000:) California's wildland/'human' fires are killing people and destroying property MAINLY due to OVERPOPULATION and the greed of builders and politicians who continue to allow building in the wildland urban interface, at an alarming rate. Curtail new and re-building while funding and allowing firefighters and foresters (et al) to remove dead vegetation and do extensive prescribed burning. For existing and new buildings increase fire prevention requirements (including 'hardening'), enforcement and fines. It's all too common during approaching wildfires to see firefighters trying to protect property by FIRST having to clear vegetations/flammables that the home/property owner should have done BEFORE a fire.
I wonder if pre-purchase property surveys in these regions actually address these issues? Do people really spend their hard earned dollars on homes in such obviously risky areas without due diligence? What projections do property insurance companies make with regard to the premiums and the protection they decide to offer to home owners in these areas?
Well said 🙏👍🔥
This is devastating
Prior to European colonization of the Americas, indigenous peoples used controlled burns to modify the landscape. These controlled fires were part of the environmental cycles and maintenance of wildlife habitats that sustained the people's cultures and economies.
Interfering with nature by putting out fires or not allowing lumber companies to harvest forest for wood is making the fires worst. These are man made disasters. Instead of a gentle burning of the forest floor, today we have catastrophic burning , killing wildlife and incinerating trees. Looks like a nuclear bomb exploded. This is not a part of nature. Indians would not recognize this landscape.
@@regulusatilius4121 It's crazy. For decades they did timbering that removed every tree, stripped it all. Then erosion was inevitable. Now timbering is not permitted in these areas. Is there no happy medium with humans? Does everything have to be extreme?
Let´s keep this video viral! We need to support the cause to decrease the climate change and air pollution!
I am worried how we will increase number of plants and oxygen if these types of fire happening all over world.. we are planting trees in parks, roadsides but due to ignorance of governments all over world forests are burning. Timely measures can save forests..
You're on point!
Planting a few trees in parks isn't enough and stopping the worldwide deforestation should be our utmost priority.
Team Of Terra Mater needs to be in UN so that they can teach some of this political leaders some thing.....
Oh wow, thanks for your kind words!
We're trying our best to spread the beauty of nature but also to shed light on species decline, deforestation, climate change and oll the other important topics!
@@terramater I appreciate everything u guys r doin for nature ....love and wishes from India🇮🇳
Nice
Thanks!
Hi, TM. The fires are surpassing all recent records. If you go back a few hundred more years, you will find that fires were far larger than what we have now. Of course, thousands of homes were not being burned down at that time. I don't want to denigrate the tragedy in the least. I do object to the Constant use of limited data that always leans toward fear, such as "Currently, cities in the American west face the world's worst air qualityof coal smoke
back then tough there was no firefighting like today
To all of us out there we have to do our part on keeping our eye out for fires and to have all of our property no matter how hard it is a safe distance of clearance of a possible fire and your zone I feel that with the climate change and a global warning that this will just be the start of all fires there will be massive fires in all states we have to be ready and hit the fires hard and use whatever resources we can to protect wildlife and structures we have to be more aggressive on fighting fires especially wildland fires from RD -01
Who did controlled burns 100 years ago?
Fires happen on their own regularly and always have.
Maybe rewatch the video, more slowly.
As Jack already said, California is used to wildfires but this time the fires are out of control due to several factors like climate change, housing development and fire suppression & management. Watch the video do get in details and see what can be done to solve this worsening problem.
@@terramater Did some native American tribes do controlled burns?
Lets face it we are getting way over populated something is going to have to give in the future!!!!
I'm a 20 year old Californian and I find it so frustrating when people refuse to acknowledge the human causes of these fires. The expansion of the suburbs, the repression of the natural fire cycle, the purposeful ignorance of California Native American land management techniques, the climate crisis; it's all so obvious to anyone who lives here and bothers to look at the situation critically. I love my home state for its diverse natural beauty and I hate seeing it so horribly managed.
And what about wars everywhere...
And war industry...
You are underrated
They need to flood death valley and get more evaporation going so they can seed the clouds and get more rain to fall in the Colorado River Basin. Refill Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Create an inland sea, all by gravity. Death Valley is all below sea level.
It is like going to beach and complain as getting wet
They just need to better manage the forests. Allow loggers to harvest the old trees to clear out the potential energy needed for fires.
It's not global warming
Basically we have too many kids 🤦♂️
the third world has to many kids the first world doesnt have enough
@@craigh2205 yup
@@craigh2205 I don't think it's just them, everyone these days thinks having big families is good, but it's not . I'd prefer to have no kids and only adopt
@@mujii_22 What are you talking about? If you are living in Europe, North America or East Asia the fertility rate is only between 0.9 to 1.9 kids. Without immigration the population of Europe and North America would be dropping at an alarming rate. If you want less people, stop importing them because that’s where all the growth is coming from, the native populations aren’t even replacing themselves let alone providing a surplus of kids.
And there are people who argue that climate change isn't real
Global warming, climate crisis, our sun the earth's inner magnetic core and outer magnetic shield all play a big part in the way we live here at the surface of our planet. I wanted to point out something very interesting on your video u have a map of california which shows the location of the wild fires well just so happens to be straight up the line of the fault of california, yes some wild fires are caused by electrical storms surface temperatures and by people but also by pressure from underneath the ground plates shifting causing the micro quakes tremors and earthquakes this pressure being released as burst of heat up to the surface caused by cosmic Solor electric particles our planets outer magnetic shield is weakening and yes because of us we are pumping out the earth's rich oils and weakening our core 😭 now we got to go to Amazon to chop up more tree's to rebuild plus all the tree's that were burned up and material wood houses what a waist what a system we got at this rate will be extinct in a few year's!🙏
Are you serious or trolling
They just announced that we have 7 years to fix our climate crisis before it's irreversible.
the climate count down
Real Talk
@@joemelendez3153
People like you are why people do not believe it though because you dont understand what you are talking about.
Humans taking shit out of the ground has 0 impact on the Earths magnetic field.
The magnetic field is produced by the CORE of the earth.
We barely scratch the surface of the crust.
The deepest we have gone down is about 2 miles with a 2inch drillbit.
The Earth is ~20,000km wide and the dense material (which produces the magnetic field) is at the center.
Humans have no effect on it.
Same story for Earthquakes happening on fault line. That's happening on a scale that you don't seem to imagine correctly. Humans have no effect on it.
The deepest trench in the ocean sits ON TOP of the Earths crust.
Even a massive human activity like draining, or displacing a huge lake has 0 effect on the movement of tectonic plates.
I hope these people don’t need water....
I hope you get bigger
Most wildfires are started by human activity anyways, if left to environmental conditions alone, fires would be far rarer than controlled burning, so claiming that artificial burning with absurd regularity is somehow perfectly natural and "good" for the ecosystem is just propaganda. What happens is simply fire tolerant species survive it and the rest are lost, and even many fire tolerant species can't sustainably survive too frequent fires, saplings need time to grow big enough to survive burning for example.
The fact is we may as well do controlled burns regardless of environmental impact as we simply can't stop people from starting fires, accidents happen and psychopaths exist, and with continuous urban sprawl into wooded areas this is inevitably exacerbated. We just cannot coexist with nature and wilderness, so we may as well manage and tame it.
According to Capt. Vancouver, California was burning before any settlements were ever there. He fails to mention that underground seismic and volcanic activity has always made California fire prone.
You don't get 300 days of sunlight without a lot of fires.
You have a lot of Indian fanbase
Yeah! 🤗🇮🇳
We really appreciate all your support!
Yeah lazers
Yeah no
hell🤣🤣🤣🤣
Could have been a good video but spoilt by the music.
Could have been a good comment but spoilt by focusing on something completely besides the point of the video.
Global warming cannot be defeated 😕
It's modern human life that is difficult to defeat cause that's the cause for global warming..
@@HardcoreThrashed Well it´s rather fighting corporate interests. As we have seen during the Corona crisis human behaviour can change fairly quickly.
@@burninghard I wouldn't disagree with your first statement, however the example with the corona crisis i'd say is somewhat risky to support since in order to change peoples' ''behaviour'', the entire western world's administrations had to embark upon campaigns.. they even took the military on the streets in EU that I live in, so I don't know how much of a comparable example that can be to the change of modern human life in terms of environmentalism.. I hope more people come across these lines here though, to get how much of a serious issue we are facing as humanity with the Global Warming and generally the destruction of nature..
You offer the idea don’t build in the areas that have high fire chances, that’s like 1/3 the entire state. What do you mean don’t build there? When you move to a flame pile of garbage you either adapt to the flaming trash or you move on. California’s climate and lack of rain make it near impossible to safe guard such an obscenely large land mass
My indigenous people in Australia know how to stop this and we’ve been stopping fires for 80 million years or so and saved millions of lives doing it, but hey to you weird tourist we are just dumb abo’s haha...
What would be your plan?
Death 🤣
Praying for many who have lost homes, family, friends, pets, etc., that God Almighty will help you all through! Our government has been trying to control the weather by "cloud seeding", spraying very toxic chemicals like silver iodide, liquid propane (just imagine what happens when flames from forest fires reach these chemicals ), and carbon dioxide, which eventually blow in the air, affecting the soil, animals, and people everywhere. People are the cause of most fires (intentionally or accidentally), but God Almighty sends the lightening, and winds. Praying for all! Psalm 121:1,2, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth." 2 Corinthians 1:3,4, "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." Revelation 18-22, Isaiah-Malachi about end times. Malachi 4:1-3, "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts."
Praying for God's mercy!
We create our reality with our thoughts and words. Watch your thoughts and words. Turn off the tell lie vision.
Profound-sounding but empty New Age style platitudes aren't helping anyone with anything.
If people knew about ecology science, they wouldn't cry about fires or floods but would like to punch politicians in the face. In France, loss of outsidr livestock pasture and landscape diversity is the cause of it. My father is a firefighter and knows about it, politicians do not. Before we had livestock and peasants clearing the woods from dry grasses and bushes, and we had not big massive forest areas but wineyards, pastures and pastured forests. Now, goats and farmers are mostly gone and no big mammals population is big enough to take care of the area.
It's not just global warming it's the earth's vibration that is rising and those whose vibration aren't up to speed will be left. Every living and non living thing has energy to it that' what they don't teach in school.
Ugh here we go with the "vibration" New Ager bullshit
I think best solutions is nitrogen bomb drop in fires
Get rid of useless democratic power
The fires are burning on federal land which is the led by a Republican administration.
Californians need to stop developing their land. Not every family needs to live on an acre of land. We need more communal housing.
@IAmFailSafe I have lived in apartment-style housing and I agree that it can have its downsides, but with proper planning it can be a very satisfying way to live, without increasing crime rates
@IAmFailSafe I don’t think it should be mandatory either. I believe people should be free to live how they would like to, within certain parameters. I do think that building UP rather than out should be the goal of development on the west coast due to the cost that building out has on our environment
right, so if a plant has evolved to get around wildfires we can all agree they've been around for a long time before humans, great thanks....
Makes you wonder why humans and our homes aren't fireproof.
GOD is pissed at California 😡🔥✝️💔
California Forest needs to be nationalize. Republicans need have a say in managing the forest.
What do you mean have a say? These fires are burning on federal land which the Republican administration is responsible for. They've done nothing about it
The Republican "say" in managing forests is going to be them saying "Go ahead and cut it all down! The lumber industry will create jobs!"
Fuck Republicans.