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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by gleglegle on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:34PM (#20780924)
These are man-made fires driven by large-scale deforestation. Calling them wildfires is misleading.
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by andrenth on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:46PM (#20781065)
There's nothing that implies natural causes in the word "wildfire".
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by gleglegle on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:53PM (#20781180)
Definitions here "wildfire, defined as largescale forest loss resulting from the burning of forest vegetation with no visible human conversion or agricultural activity afterward". There is clear agricultural activity immediately shown after the vast majority of Brazilian fires. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.ful...
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by andrenth on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:05PM (#20781343)
"Any large fire that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish."

I'm using the dictionary definition of the word.

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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by jeremysalwen on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:39PM (#20781746)
So you would honestly describe the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which clearly was large, spread rapidly, and was hard to extinguish as a "wildfire"?
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by andrenth on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:46PM (#20781826)
Was it in the wild?
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