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California’s wildfires are getting bigger, hotter, more frequent, and more difficult to control. What happened? Why are wildfires increasing in size and intensity so much that we had to coin new terms like “megafire” and “gigafire”? And what needs to change to return to a healthy fire cycle?

Climate change plays a major role: the extreme heat and drought it causes makes fires much more likely. But that’s not all there is to it. In this video, we’re looking at the history of California’s forests, why fire suppression actually led to worse fires, and the advantages of controlled burns and thinning forests.

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01:07 California’s forest ecology
02:18 How the natural cycle was broken
04:57 The new mega- and giga-fires
06:12 What we can do
09:05 Conclusion

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Director: Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Producer: Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative directors: Shane Thomas McMillan and Fátima González-Torres
Script: Shane Thomas McMillan
Script editing: Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot) and Fátima González-Torres
Cinematographer: Shane Thomas McMillan
Editing & post-production: Shane Thomas McMillan

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