We all know that we are infuriatingly terrible at preventing the preventable. Wildfires are a special kind of disaster in that we are often the ones who light, feed, and propagate them. The calamitous fires that have swept out of the hills around Los Angeles, spring from a mixture of natural phenomena and the human refusal to act on what we know. The longer a fire lingers, the hotter it grows and the more time it has to slip next door and start the process all over again.
'As long as we continue to build houses with wood in places that are expected to burn, the only outcome we can expect is that houses will burn,' says Michele Barbato. 'We need to build noncombustible homes.' Barbato believes that builders in Southern California and other fire-prone places should return to an ancient construction material that is plentiful, indestructible, harmless to harvest, and easy to use: dirt.
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