Pine beetles as a harbinger of manmade climate change destruction

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However, the reality appears to be that the pine beetle, much like fire, is simply a natural process forests go through. And while the current outbreak is larger than we remember, Stephens summed it up by saying, "The beetles haven't read the textbooks."