Worsening heat and dryness could lead to a 50 percent rise in extreme wildfires by 2100. -United Nations Environment Program

“With climate change triggering droughts and industry clearing forests, the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 30% within the next 28 years. These industries are now scorching environments that were not prone to burning in the past, such as the Arctic's tundra and the Amazon rainforest.” - Reuters

“We went to the top of the food chain because we learned to cook landscapes,” Pyne wrote in an essay. “Now we have become a geological force because we have begun to cook the planet.”

This “fire age” is reshaping our planet much like the last ice age carved out our rivers and lakes. “Mass extinctions, changes in sea level, large changes in vegetation and the arrangement of plants and animals — it kind of looks like the equivalent of a fire age,” he said.” - Grist

Emissions

“Wildfires release carbon emissions that affect climate and drive climate change-related events that contribute to even more wildfires…To put the carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires into perspective, September 2020 data from the Global Fire Emissions Database show that California wildfires in 2020 generated more than 91 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. That’s roughly 30 million metric tons more carbon dioxide emissions than the state emits annually from power production.” - NASA

How to stop wildfires

“We must demand that corporations and governments end the use of fossil fuels to halt the global heating that fuels wildfires. We must transition to a green and just recovery powered by clean energy. We must protect and restore ecosystems that are more resilient to fires and stop once and for all the use of fires to clear land for commodity-driven agriculture that destroys our planet for corporate greed.” - Greenpeace International