Forest management, not only climate change, contributes to wildfire severity; US policy changes around 1990 reduced controlled burning and forest management, leading California governor Jerry Brown to acknowledge forests had turned into 'carbon bombs' from poor management.

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Daniel Yergin

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we stopped managing...we're allowing them to turn into carbon bombs because we're not having controlled firing, we're not cleaning underbrush

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Daniel Yergin on Why Energy Prices Didn’t Soar HigherForeign Policy
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:41:21 PM

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