s can be said to be lightning strikes and to human activities such as machinery sparks, cast-away cigarette butts and many more examples. However, climate change has become an upcoming threat that has continuously contributed favorably in the creation of bigger and more powerful fires in American over the past few years till to date affecting millions and destroying people’s property as well as disrupting wildlife. This has been proven correct through science in the study of climate change. Factors such as increasing heat, change in rain patterns as well as that of snow, shifts in plant seasons, and other climate-related changes have really increased the likelihood that fires will start more often and burn more strongly and widely than they have in the past making this a curious issue that people are currently facing.
Such climate change is caused by humans who have fueled the increase in influencing the climate and tampering with the earth’s temperature by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and practising livestock farming. This aids in adding large amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming. However, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation and through this causes major effects on the weather patterns and thus causes climate change.
The second discussion is how the federal government or lack of action by the government contributed to the worsening of the wildfire problem. One of the government policies that has not been looked upon is such as many Americans are moving into wildfire-prone areas outside of cities as they are risking their lives knowingly, and some communities often move to resist restrictions on development. Another policy is that of a federal policy to aggressively extinguish wildfires rather than letting some burn at low levels, and that approach has now been seen as unwise, has left forests with plenty of fuel for especially more fires to eventually occur. This has also been seen in our current time when global warming is creating a hotter and drier environment, that aids in the fueling of more wildfires in the United States.
Another additional reason for the cause of why wildfires are becoming more frequent due to lack of federal action is that more Americans are moving to areas outside of cities near forests. These areas are known as the wildland-urban areas. Some people move to these wildland-urban areas since housing costs are lower in those areas in the sense that materials for building houses in the forests are readily available thus human activities cause major destructions of forests thus ending to wildfires. Policymakers are unable to stop all growth. However, experts said that the government could impose tougher restrictions in the coming future development plans to ensure that communities are better protected against wildfire when it arrives.
Last but not least is the lack of federal action when it comes to the regulation in the main root cause of global warming, that ends causing climate change, is human behaviour. The main way to reduce is this is to reduce fossil fuel use, which pumps warm gases into the atmosphere causing global warming leading to different climatic changes. But some steps can reduce the spread of wildfire damage even as countries work to cut gas emissions.
The third and final discussion is on what actions can be undertaken to lessen the disproportionate impact of climate change on communities of colour and communities of lower-income citizens making this my main policy advocacy memo. The first action that can help reduce wildfires in the United States is by making a fire funding fix count that is instead of spending more in putting wildfires which at times the forest service has less money for wildfire prevention, it is recommended to restore the forests by removing dead plants or trees and help sustain the survival of seedlings, and this requires more constant and careful management.
The second action is aiding in research to find the best options that are the federal government should help fund studies that provide helpful information—however, the need of a more understanding about how to manage forests. Additionally, the research could help study the best ways to predict high-risk areas for wildfire and understand how climate change is shifting. A third action is turning forest byproducts into revenue that is by reducing the risk of creating new fires by removing vegetation that can help fuel fires. Those plants can be turned to renewable sources such as paper and furniture. Removing dead plants for sale could generate millions of dollars in vital funding for restoring the forest. This will create new revenue and jobs, which will help improve ecological health. Lastly, an additional action that can be used is building a bedrock on environmental policies, and bedrock policies provide a critical catcher for ecosystems at risk; this includes forests as well. With climate change the issue that has made wildfires worse, the need is greater than ever for more funding.
In conclusion, wildfires have caused major effects on climate change which has caused different weather patterns as well as caused damage to millions of people’s properties and loss of lives, especially in America. However, this can be reduced by formulating and putting in place strict policies that will help cab start of wildfires.