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Hello and welcome to Factually. I'm Adam Conover.

Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.

You know, if you've smelled a certain aroma of burning in in the air if the sun has started to look a little more

orange-y pink than usual well you might have noticed it's fire season in America.

Of course it feels like it's been fire season for a couple of solid years now and there's truth to that.

Extreme wildfires have doubled in just the last 20 years.

And these fires are not only a product of global warming. They're a product of humans directly.

In California, where I live, 95% of all wildfires are caused by people.

They are not natural disasters.

They are human disasters.

But you know what?

That shouldn't actually be surprising to us

because the history of humanity is in fact the history of fire itself.

In billions of years of life on Earth, we are the only species that has managed to

control and start fire.

We have fire to thank for our big brains, which we were able to evolve because we were able to cook food using fire.

We have fire to thank for the fossil fuel economy that gave us everything from cars to chat

gp d and for the ongoing threat of catastrophic climate change. So when you look at

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