While I agree with a lot of what you said, unless first world means “perfect and flawless”, what happened in California and Texas arent “third world events”. Ou

While I agree with a lot of what you said, unless first world means “perfect and flawless”, what happened in California and Texas arent “third world events”. Our systems have limits, even multi billion $ systems built by very smart engineers. Rolling wildfires across a state is infrequent on that scale in California. That cold snap in Texas was one of the lowest ever on record. These are rare events that to prepare against except in hindsight would seem like a waste of everyone’s money. France and other places in Europe lose power during heatwaves and cold snaps. That’s just reality. Our grid isn’t prepped for a nuclear war, or an alien invasion for the same reason. That’s not a third world outcome, that’s a look behind the curtain to see how fallible the world just is.