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The Truth about the Americas in 1491 with Charles C. Mann

Factually! with Adam Conover

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California Is a Place Where America's Problems Seem to Coalesce

California is always one of the places where America's problems seem to almost coalesce and become a lignet in a way. Without that controlled burning, that allows undergrowth to rise up which is much more flammable and that leads to bigger fires. And so they instead the forest service, um, and inaugurated what's been called the 10 AM policy, which is that every fire started in the forest on day one should be out by 10am next day.

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