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Canadian Wildfires Prove That Proper Forest Management Beats ‘Green’ Plans

It’s the same every fire season: Armchair experts and green campaigners confuse poor forest management with climate change, and then they use that confusion to justify their plans to remake the economy and control your energy use.

Just as they did in 2023, true believers are claiming that the Canadian wildfires that last week darkened the skies over the Eastern Seaboard are “climate change coming home to roost on your roof.” Their solution is to shut down reliable energy and force you to subsidize solar, wind, and electric vehicles again. “Do all this and more now,” they argue, “so that the smoke does not return.”

But blaming wildfires on climate change is a handy distraction from real solutions that could actually help manage the wildfire issue. Rather than admitting that their green plans exacerbate wildfire risks by stopping people from using and managing forested areas, environmental activists double down, pretending that if they can ban gasoline and natural gas, wildfires will simply disappear.

We all know that wildfires existed long before Henry Ford began rolling Flathead V8s off his assembly lines. More reasonable voices must correct the narrative by repeatedly explaining how wildfires have been around for as long as the world has had forests, and that, while warm air can make fires more intense, it does not cause them. For the uninitiated, ignition sources (like arsonists and lightning) do, when........

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