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title: "“The fire equivalent of an ice age”: Humanity enters a new era of fire"
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# “The fire equivalent of an ice age”: Humanity enters a new era of fire

[Link →](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/10/canadian-wildfire-smoke-pyrocene/)

Willkommen im “Pyrocene”! Der Klimawandel begünstigt im zunehmenden Maße die Ausbreitung und Häufigkeit von Waldbränden, die wiederum neben gesund­heits­schäd­licher Luftverschmutzung und wirtschaftlichen Schäden durch die freigesetzten Emissionen, klar, den Klimawandel begünstigen.

> The East Coast, along with the rest of the planet, has entered a new fire era, or — as Stephen Pyne, an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, calls it — the “Pyrocene.”

> Sooner, rather than later, it may all start to feel normal. There will be a smoke season, just like there is now an allergy season, Pyne said. Fires will become a part of the rhythm of our everyday lives.