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• sailfast 7y ago
  Quite right. As my post mentioned quite explicitly the issue here is about perception, not about the reality. Second, it's difficult to talk about compare national fire levels when you're talking about localized forest fires and the need to surge to protect. If your house is burning, but your rich neighbor is fine, you start asking questions. So what you get is "my house is burning and the mayor is saying there aren't enough resources to save it but only the rich guy got the mitigation" - people start asking questions. The solution is (like all things) somewhere in the middle - raise the level of public services in a way that allows for better mitigation / protection (which requires money), so that the reasons for misperception are no longer there (the house doesn't burn).