But there are still if, while, function definitions, etc. in scripting languages. It doesn’t seem to me that different than even programming in assembler. In Assembler you also call subroutines, etc. and in every other language you also call functions from libraries.
The difference is that wildfires have always happened anb by growing the new Forrest’s, etc. carbon will be used and removed from the atmosphere. This is normally never a problem if we aren’t already on the tipping point.