{"id":122,"date":"2008-09-30T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/09\/30\/financial-crises-and-forest-fires\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T04:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T04:13:35","slug":"financial-crises-and-forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/financial-crises-and-forest-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial crises and forest fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t parse the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/publicmarkup.org\/bill\/emergency-economic-stabilization-act-2008\/\">fine details<\/a>\u00a0of the rejected bail-out bill, but it feels like there&#8217;s a direct analogy between the current crisis and forest fire management.<\/p>\n<p>For example, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2006-11-07-fire-management_x.htm\">this article<\/a>\u00a0on the US Forest Service&#8217;s shift in policy, including this section:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: initial none initial;\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;\">Their reasoning [to just let fires burn] is that fire is a natural part of the landscape that clears out underbrush and small trees and creates forest openings in a mosaic pattern. Such conditions help keep small fires from growing into the kind of large, catastrophic blazes that have become increasingly common in recent years. They now say that decades of aggressively fighting fires was a mistake because it allowed forests to become overcrowded and ripe for fires nearly impossible to control.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This thinking might be applicable here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/fastguardservice.com\/service\/fire-watch-service-guards\/ \">Fire Watch Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t parse the\u00a0fine details\u00a0of the rejected bail-out bill, but it feels like there&#8217;s a direct analogy between the current crisis and forest fire management. For example, read\u00a0this article\u00a0on the US Forest Service&#8217;s shift in policy, including this section: Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/financial-crises-and-forest-fires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}