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Diogenes
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For everyone saying this is not a time for blame, this is exactly the moment that the people who have been responsible for the mismanagement of California's fire policies be held accountable.
Our governor has been obsessed with holding a special session to "Trump-proof" CA, when he should be focused on FIRE-PROOFING our communities.
Here are a few hard facts about the Democrat-run state's failures to address fire prevention:
In the 1950s the average timber harvest in California was around 6.0 billion board feet per year. Today, that number has dropped to ~1.5 billion board feet per year.California’s forests, which cover a third of the state, are now choked with nearly 163 million dead trees.
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and other regulatory policies limit the ability of local government and fire management services to clear dead trees and vegetation. (This is a big deal and prevents much of the controlled burns we desperately need.)Multiple bills, including AB 2330, AB 1951, and AB 2639 were rejected by the democrat-controlled Legislature or vetoed by the Governor that would have exempted wildfire prevention projects from CEQA and other permitting issues.
Other legislation, including SB 1003, would have provided CEQA exemptions for utility undergrounding projects, as power lines that are not adequately cleared of debris present major wildfire risks. These bills also failed to reach the Governor’s desk.
California has prioritized “suppression-only” strategies and failed to remove accumulated vegetation, leading to denser forests with increased fuel loads – our forests have become tinderboxes, leading to devastating outcomes when a fire starts.
Bottom line: many of the wild fires CA experienced could have been prevented or significantly mitigated with better management, policies, and funding.
This is a time for accountability and, more importantly, change in how we approach fire policy.
Many of the rejected proposals were brought by Republicans, and I suspect they were rejected for that reason.
There is only one political party to blame for CA's failures.
Diogenes
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TV crews are using SpaceX's @Starlink to broadcast their live fire coverage in LA.
"The only reason you're able to see us right now is because of Starlink. There's absolutely no cell service at all in this whole area."
"SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals to affected areas in LA tomorrow morning."
~Elon Musk
"The only reason you're able to see us right now is because of Starlink. There's absolutely no cell service at all in this whole area."
"SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals to affected areas in LA tomorrow morning."
~Elon Musk
Diogenes
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Lesbian Fire Chieftainess Kristin Crowley told Democrat Mayor Karen Bass a month ago that the budget cuts she made to the fire department would be catastrophic.
https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1877220039255851076/photo/1
https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1877220039255851076/photo/1
Diogenes
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ELON STEPS IN AS LA BURNS: STARLINK KEEPING EMERGENCY COMMS ALIVE
SpaceX deploying free Starlink terminals to LA fire zones tomorrow as outages hit upwards of 400,000 homes.
TV crews are already relying on Starlink for live coverage amid total cell blackout.
Fire Update:80,000 evacuated
1,000+ structures destroyed.
All fires 0% contained
Palisades: 15,800 acres
Eaton: 10,600 acres
Death toll at 5
DEMOCRATS to blame
Diogenes
It's not my fault if you're retarded
Wildfires are nothing new.
Even if there is some added effect from global warming, blaming them on climate change is intellectually lazy and it does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.
But, that makes too much sense.
Instead, we live in a society where these progressives in power would rather sit back and watch as California burns to the ground instead of paying people to go in and clean up all of the highly flammable, small-diameter fuels accumulating on the forest floor so that they can advance their war against oil and gas companies and redistribute wealth.
The vast majority of fires are caused by human negligence.
Spending hundreds of trillions of taxpayer dollars on “net zero” isn’t really going to reduce fire risk, especially in the short term.
Fire risk can be reduced significantly with better forest management practices, and largely prevented altogether - if people just stopped setting them.
Even if there is some added effect from global warming, blaming them on climate change is intellectually lazy and it does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.
But, that makes too much sense.
Instead, we live in a society where these progressives in power would rather sit back and watch as California burns to the ground instead of paying people to go in and clean up all of the highly flammable, small-diameter fuels accumulating on the forest floor so that they can advance their war against oil and gas companies and redistribute wealth.
The vast majority of fires are caused by human negligence.
Spending hundreds of trillions of taxpayer dollars on “net zero” isn’t really going to reduce fire risk, especially in the short term.
Fire risk can be reduced significantly with better forest management practices, and largely prevented altogether - if people just stopped setting them.