In the 80’s, there was a fight won by the left to stop logging especially of old growth. I think that they were right to prevent the wholesale cutting down of t

In the 80’s, there was a fight won by the left to stop logging especially of old growth. I think that they were right to prevent the wholesale cutting down of trees but they went too far. They also prevented culling of trees and controlled burns. They argued that culling would just be an excuse to continue logging. They also argued that controlled burns would incentivize logging. The prevention of culling and controlled burns caused underbrush to grow and grow. The side effect of massive fires was known even then and was ignored by the left. Now we are suffering from that ideological purity stupidity. The forests were just a bomb waiting to go off and at least in the Bay Area were triggered by the massive number of lightning strikes. Some additional points. This isn’t due to urban encroachment. Just look at the number and extent of the forest fires. They are basically everywhere including areas with very few people. Forest fires are a natural occurrence but our actions tilted it toward massive fires and massive numbers of simultaneous fires. Must we again suffer from ideological purity stupidity? This isn’t directly caused by global warming. Edit: people who downvote because this strikes too close to home are sad