God, man and the fires
Who is to blame for the inferno in the west?
AS WESTERNERS are wont to observe, nature has a grander scale on their side of the Mississippi. Its trees are giants, its canyons gape, its mountains tower—and its disasters are epic. This year an unusually hot, dry summer has turned the annual wildfire season into a protracted inferno raging from Arizona to the Canadian border.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “God, man and the fires”
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