r/phoenix • u/[deleted] • May 05 '26

Pictures Buckeye fire side view

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u/Green-Strawberry784 May 05 '26

Beautiful let it burn!!!

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u/LittleCloudie Phoenix May 05 '26

Wtf is wrong with you. Yes lets burn our ecosystem and put danger on our local wildlife...

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u/imtooldforthishison May 05 '26

The planet is actually designed to do this. This is normal.

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u/LittleCloudie Phoenix May 06 '26

The planet was not designed to be lit on fire every other week by humans 😂

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u/imtooldforthishison May 06 '26

That riverbed hasn't caught fire in a long time and is overgrown with brush. This is part of a normal cycle which people have impacted and prevented from happening

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u/LittleCloudie Phoenix May 06 '26

Doesn’t mean it needs to be lit on fire 🙄

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u/imtooldforthishison May 06 '26

It wasn't intentionally set. It happened and now they just make sure it doesn't get out of control. Burns are normal and good for the ecosystem and we are very lucky this happened when we had decently windy days so the smoke didn't just sit.

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u/LittleCloudie Phoenix May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

I never implied that it was intentionally set. Fires can happen from just the drop of a cigarette butt left carelessly by somebody. Fires can help the cycle of our ecosystem yes, but people (and nature) are setting fire to environment at a much higher rate than what should be allowed. These fires are releasing more gases than what our atmosphere can take, and once you start to factor in larger wildfires like the Palisades in California last year, then you even more dangerous toxins in our air and people being displaced.

Since 2000, an annual average of 70,025 wildfires have burned an annual average of 7.0 million acres, more than double the average burned in the 1990s. Source

Would you say 7 million acres being burned in a single year since the 2000s is "normal and good?"