Inside the Flames: The Untold Story of a Hotshot’s Fierce Battle for Survival
The history of wildfire in North America only further supports these inherent contradictions: “The first National Parks in the United States were established with the violent removal of Indigenous Americans. There is no justification for these tactics. At the same time, had they not been established, it’s likely that the land would have been deforested, mined, or otherwise exploited. We can hold two truths at once: that the lands were stolen, and that they were rescued from a harsher fate.” The ways we control nature can be harmful, but we also have the power to preserve it, if we choose. There’s a multitude of always-evolving complex truths which can live alongside one another as the land heals.
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