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Los Angeles Wildfires: Narrative, Analogy

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'We are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age': Humans have plunged Earth into the 'Pyrocene'

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In recent years , fires have blasted through cities in Colorado , the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui .

Historian: Humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries , that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age.

The prospect for worsening fires because of changing land use and fire practices was apparent before climate change became a serious consideration, he says.

Earth is entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene , complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes.

Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.

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