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As I said, I don't like PG&E. High rates, San Bruno, etc, etc. The problem is that a lot of the forests in California are just going to burn, whether it's tom
by cameldrv 8y ago
As I said, I don't like PG&E. High rates, San Bruno, etc, etc. The problem is that a lot of the forests in California are just going to burn, whether it's tomorrow or in five years, because they are tinderboxes. Maybe any individual ones will be caused by poorly maintained electrical lines, or a careless campfire, or a cigarette or lightning, but given enough time, there will be a spark. In much of California, wildfire is part of the natural cycle. A lot of of California is dry, so downfall wood doesn't rot. The only way that energy gets released is for it to burn. Because we use forest management practices developed where downfall wood does rot, and because politicians don't like to tell people that their cozy cabin in the woods needs to burn down, we've backed ourselves into an ugly corner with way too much fuel on the forest floor. You can blame PG&E, but if it wasn't them with the ignition source it would have been someone else.