Jesus. . You actually think carbon released from burning wood is exempt from the whole “making the planet unlivable” effect?
Repeat that to yourself while you watch the skies turn red. That’s a ridiculous statement to make.
The issue is burning hydrocarbons we pump out of the ground, because doing so interrupts the equilibrium between atmospheric carbon and natural carbon sinks like forests in the carbon cycle.
Here's a short slideshow about the carbon cycle from a meteorology course[1], under short-term carbon cycle you'll see wildfires, decomposition, cellular respiration etc. Here's research from NASA[2]. Here's a paper that cites numerous references to these facts[3].
Here's what the state of CA says[4]:
> Fire is an important part of the carbon cycle. Fire consumes organic matter, releasing greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, carbon monoxide, and other materials. Trees and plants not immediately consumed in the fire may be killed and decompose rapidly, releasing CO2.
> Although fire produces carbon emissions, it is also a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem, especially in California where plants are adapted to fire. Rather than eliminate fire, the goal is to maintain historical fire regimes and thus avoid catastrophic fires that occur when fuels build up to unnatural levels.
[1] https://www.sjsu.edu/people/frank.freedman/courses/metr113/s...
[2] https://icp.giss.nasa.gov/research/ppa/2001/tpenafort/
[3] https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2014_loehman_r001.p...
[4] https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/resourc...
(Also, the sky turning red is actually somewhat pretty. The real harm is what it does to your lungs. Better air filtration indoors is the answer to this, and happily, also a good way to mitigate the risk of respiratory diseases..)
If you mean that Californian fires are smoking out states like Nebraska, that's something I haven't heard of. But if you mean smoking out Seattle, the example used above by DisjointedHunt, that's not right. All of the west coast burns; from California all the way to Alaska. The smoke in Seattle mostly comes from fires in Washington and British Columbia.
And it really is a "you live in the wrong place" problem because there isn't a solution to that other than humans completely re-engineering the ecology of the west coast, which simply is not going to happen for a myriad of reasons. So either you learn to cope with it (as I and many others have) or you move further East. The fires won't stop.
The other explanation would be, that your arguments and discussion style are not the best and not worth engaging with.