A post-growth system essentially says: Not only are we facing ecological limits, but the very systems that have been driving us into ecological overshoot are also unsustainable from a social perspective.
The lasting impact of the 2020 Oregon wildfires Ash and debris along OR22 from property destroyed by the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires. Oregon DOT
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The summer of 2020 was a time of fire and devastation for much of the Western U.S. The combination of human-caused climate change and pervasive forestry mismanagement created the conditions for August 2020 s thunderstorms to cause record-breaking wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington (as well as additional fires all across the Western states into September). Because of the many factors torrential winds, hot and dry terrains following drought and logging practices like clear-cutting, worsening storms due to climate change the situation quickly grew into a disaster as individual forest fires connected and turned into megafires and scorched more than 10.2 million acres of land, destroyed more than 10,000 buildings and took at least 37 people s lives. In th