George Whitesides
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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This risk is increasing.
And if we don't get our act together, we're going to have more paradises.
We're going to have more Santa Rosas.
We're going to have more behind us.
We're going to have more Marshall fires like the one they had in Colorado.
eight of the 10 largest mega fires in California history have happened over the last five or six years.
Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests.
And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades,
has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.
And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.
Many people feel overwhelmed by the situation.
I know I did.
So, two years ago, I closed a chapter of my life in aerospace, and I started a new journey to see if I could understand the wildfire crisis better and what could be done about it.
I started working with leaders from firefighting, entrepreneurship, science, tribal communities, and together, we co-founded an organization called Megafire Action, whose sole purpose is to solve the megafire crisis.
The path forward has three solutions.
The first is fire adapted communities.
The second is resilient landscapes.
And the third is innovative fire management.
Yeah, sure.
In fact, it could be as simple as individual homeowners doing the work that is required to make their home more resilient to wildfire.
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