Yeah, if it's not a power line then something else will start the fires. The problem isn't the initial spark, it's the hundreds of square miles of tinder-dry w

Yeah, if it's not a power line then something else will start the fires. The problem isn't the initial spark, it's the hundreds of square miles of tinder-dry wildland. Not sure it's a perverse incentive, but it's probably not a productive use of money. But it's human nature to look for the problems that we are capable of solving, and we know how to bury powerlines. We don't know how to reverse the effects of climate change.