Comment by karaterobot

It's cool to do research and put some hard data and numbers behind common sense. But I feel like there's this weird phenomenon going on where people are pretending this is new information. I'm in my 40s, and I remember hearing about controlled burns when I was a little kid: I was told that we tried to stop all forest fires, but this had the unintended affect of making wildfires more common and harder to control in the end. This was at least 35 years ago, and common enough that a non-scientist (my dad) would tell it to a little kid. Lately I've been hearing it like it's some kind of new discovery.