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These are man-made fires driven by large-scale deforestation. Calling them wildfires is misleading.

• andrenth 7y ago
  There's nothing that implies natural causes in the word "wildfire".
  • gleglegle 7y ago
    Definitions here "wildfire, defined as largescale forest loss resulting from the burning of forest vegetation with no visible human conversion or agricultural activity afterward". There is clear agricultural activity immediately shown after the vast majority of Brazilian fires. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.full.pdf https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.ful...
    • andrenth 7y ago
      "Any large fire that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish." I'm using the dictionary definition of the word.
      • jeremysalwen 7y ago
        So you would honestly describe the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which clearly was large, spread rapidly, and was hard to extinguish as a "wildfire"?
        • andrenth 7y ago
          Was it in the wild?