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BJORN LOMBORG | Global fire rates drop despite headlines of disaster

Business Day · 31 August 2026 at 14:16

BJORN LOMBORG | Global fire rates drop despite headlines of disaster

Media focus on disaster ignores century-long downward trend in global fire rates

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