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The Economist
The Economist
22 Aug 2024


NextImg:Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating

Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating

Climate change is accelerating the blaze

HUMANITY HAS lived and played with fire for at least 300,000 years. The oldest hearth, discovered at Qesem Cave in Israel and thick with wood ash, is as old as Homo sapiens. Burning never subsequently went out of fashion. Millennia later, the large-scale combustion of coal, oil and natural gas unlocked energy on a scale far beyond the hearth—and in so doing set in train profound changes to the planet’s climate. Humankind, activists are fond of saying, set fossil fuels alight and the world with it. They brandish placards with images of a burning blue marble.

This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “World on fire”

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