California Dreaming No More

[Garbage1]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/09/susan_crabtree_fires_obliterate_emissions_gains_from_californias_green_policies.html

 

[dik]

Climate change would mean they don't burn any more.

With climate change, there may be nothing left to burn.

 

[dik]

Cute cartoon...

 

[CWB1]

Don't forget, California banned the sale of gas powered chain saws last year...

and relies heavily on contracted logging crews for fighting the annual blazes. Good luck with that going forward.

The irony of this fire is the size and location. Large wildfires happen in extremely rural areas bc the fire goes unnoticed until they're massive. A fire this size in LA tho is like a murder in a police station - shouldnt happen. This disaster happened bc state bureaucrats and politicians both chose to ignore federal law, and sadly both groups will likely bc excused from prison or even public trial bc of qualified immunity. We prob wont even hear of an engineer losing their license or job over this...

 

[TugboatEng]

Dik, your comic rings true but not in the way you think. It is true that most wildfires in Ca are set by humans, usually an arsonist or an unhousable.

 

[GregLocock]

26% of bushfires in Oz are started by lightning. We should never have given the koalas boxes of matches.



Mind you a few years back the picture was more like this for one bad year. The powerline companies had to bury a lot of transmission lines and increase their tree lopping activity.

 

[dik]

It is true that most wildfires in Ca are set by humans, usually an arsonist or an unhousable.

So the problem is a social one. Conditions are set to cause the deterioration of the society. I wonder what the cause of that is?

It seems to be systemic, and maybe country wide.

 

[TugboatEng]

California does have the highest income disparity... That creates a lot of stressed and depressed persons.