California and Australia are burning, and people is wondering why. From early childhood I have the vision of the prairie (America's open grassland) burning and killing everything in its way, thanks to Karl May's adventures of Old Shatterhand (a German) and his blood brother Winnetou (a Mescalero Chief). Once Old Shatterhand found himself downwind from a prairie-fire, in mortal danger. He took his faithful Bahrentotter and killed a buffalo, emptied its insides and sewed himself in the carcass. The fire passed over him in a few minutes without harming him and, I imagine, afterwards he enjoyed a copious "asado".
Thus I am not surprised by the fires and don't talk me about climate change.
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