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Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them (archive.md)
submitted 2 months ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/australia@aussie.zone
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I thought this bit made an excellent point

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It was around this time in 2020 that the US was helping Australian firefighters with a catastrophic surge of blazes during what became known as their Black Summer. If the same thing happens this year, both governments will be in an impossible situation.

Maybe not this year but one year soon this WILL happen. We voters aren't taking any of this seriously, so neither are our politicians... be prepared.

After literally going through Black Summer (fire all around us), we moved to a place of zero bushfire risk in rural Tasmania. Even smoke triggers my partner who fought in those fires for 4 months, no pay. Hard to pay the bills

I guess what we need is nuclear submarines /s

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[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I'm merely hoping that the collective intelligence of 8 billion aided by AI and whatnot...

Okay, two things. Firstly, AI is causing a massive acceleration in the damage we're doing to the climate. It is incredibly power-hungry to train those models. Secondly, AI is, in fact, incredibly bloody stupid. It is not "intelligent", and in essence is just a rebranding of what AI should be for marketing purposes. It's not capable of novel ideas, nor does it try to be.

Please for the love of all that is good in this world could people educate themselves on how terrible AI actually is.

[-] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

💯 I used AI as a placeholder for any tools or methodologies we might use

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