• Socioecology,  Uncategorized,  Wildlife

    California: Let It Burn?

    As we all know, social media is both a blessing and a curse. One of the negatives of social media has been the propagation of misinformation and catchy sayings or infographics that just don’t hold any truth. The biggest one of these has been regarding the wild fires of 2020, specifically of those in California and the Western United States. I’ve seen tweets comparing 2019 wildfire statistics to those of 2020, and posts like “I don’t need a time machine to see climate change, all I have to do is look outside my window,” set to scenes of red smoky skies. As you can imagine, these and other similar posts…