Daily newscasts have become powerfully redundant. Observers have to strain to ignore the impression that the world is on the cusp of rapidly disintegrating. Southern Europe, Northern and Western U.S. and Southern Canada are suffering from uncontrolled wildfires. This year alone, firefighters have already responded to 48,000 wildfires that have burned more than 6.5 million acres across the country. In January, wildfires killed at least 31 people,…