Science and environmental crisis amid fires and pandemia

ABSTRACT

[...]the processes of climate change and the significant increase in global average temperature were very evident. According to data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Space Agency, and the European Union’s Copernicus System, the major global fires of 2020 were the most devastating, considering the 18 years of research and generation of global data on forest fires. According to environmental historian Stephen Pyne, contemporary society is experiencing the Pyrocene era, a historical period in which mega-fires are more frequent, more dangerous, and more disturbing. According to Pyne, the Pyrocene would be equivalent, in environmental terms, to the global effects of the great glaciation (PYNE, 2020).