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Fire

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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The Pyrrhic Transition

Economic development has seen us confine fire to various special chambers. Stephen Pine argues that this transition increased our fear of wildfires. And with climate change, we can expect to see more of those fires. It took half a century after Ed Polaski's heroics for consensus to form that quickly extinguishing wildfires isn't such a great idea.

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