Think of California's wildfires. While climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of our fires, climate (and neglect by PG&E) is merely part of the story. The other part of the story is #FireDebt.

For millennia, the original people of California practiced controlled burns of the forests they lived, hunted, and played in. These burns cleared out sick and dying trees, scoured the forest floor of tinder, and opened spaces in the canopy that gave rise to new growth.

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Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

📝by Cory Doctorow

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#FireDebt #Enshittification #SwitchingCosts #Threads

#QT - https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110685015975675476

California needs to burn

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

#FireDebt #Wildfires #Metaphors

Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

#FireDebt #Enshittification #SwitchingCosts #Threads