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No, I'm responding to a post and comment about the water shortage which mentions wildfires in passing. You've been here almost as long as I have!

Supermancho 5y ago
> No, I'm responding to a post and comment about the water shortage which mentions wildfires in passing. Original: > This is a little unreasonable and just smacks of victim blaming. The way you write suggests the California has been deliberately setting their own wildfires, rather than just being a early victim of climate change. > We're not victims - that would imply some outside actor. In reality it's almost entirely our fault Your interpretation of the chain of the conversation is incorrect. The victim-blaming is in reference to wildfires, which you re-frame as being about water (because that's what you want to focus on). Good luck with whatever.
- throwaway09223 5y ago
  Sorry, I'm not really interested in whatever this is you're doing here. I was in fact responding to the drought bits. Have a good one.
  - avianlyric 5y ago
    As the author of the original comment, let me clear this up. > This is a little unreasonable and just smacks of victim blaming. The way you write suggests the California has been deliberately setting their own wildfires, rather than just being a early victim of climate change. This part of my comment was about wildfire and climate change only. I didn’t intend, nor do I think I did, suggest any link between droughts and climate change. > With regards to water reservoirs, that does not seem to be a uniquely Californian thing. As an outside observer it seems the entire US is dependent on ageing infrastructure built after WWII, which has seen nothing but neglect since. This is a second, separate part of my comment. Hence the new paragraph. Here I was commenting on the state of US infrastructure and how it relates to California’s water reservoirs. Again I didn’t intend to link water shortages to climate change. So, in summary, my comment has distinct parts. In neither part do I bring up any link between water and climate change. I do, however, quite explicitly link climate change to wildfires. I’m quite happy for people to assert that such a link doesn’t exist, or isn’t substantial. In short my comment was about wildfires and US infrastructure, that doesn’t to droughts at all. You’ll notice that my original comment doesn’t contain the word “drought”.

Supermancho 5y ago

> No, I'm responding to a post and comment about the water shortage which mentions wildfires in passing. Original: > This is a little unreasonable and just smacks of victim blaming. The way you write suggests the California has been deliberately setting their own wildfires, rather than just being a early victim of climate change. > We're not victims - that would imply some outside actor. In reality it's almost entirely our fault Your interpretation of the chain of the conversation is incorrect. The victim-blaming is in reference to wildfires, which you re-frame as being about water (because that's what you want to focus on). Good luck with whatever.

throwaway09223 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not really interested in whatever this is you're doing here. I was in fact responding to the drought bits. Have a good one.
- avianlyric 5y ago
  As the author of the original comment, let me clear this up. > This is a little unreasonable and just smacks of victim blaming. The way you write suggests the California has been deliberately setting their own wildfires, rather than just being a early victim of climate change. This part of my comment was about wildfire and climate change only. I didn’t intend, nor do I think I did, suggest any link between droughts and climate change. > With regards to water reservoirs, that does not seem to be a uniquely Californian thing. As an outside observer it seems the entire US is dependent on ageing infrastructure built after WWII, which has seen nothing but neglect since. This is a second, separate part of my comment. Hence the new paragraph. Here I was commenting on the state of US infrastructure and how it relates to California’s water reservoirs. Again I didn’t intend to link water shortages to climate change. So, in summary, my comment has distinct parts. In neither part do I bring up any link between water and climate change. I do, however, quite explicitly link climate change to wildfires. I’m quite happy for people to assert that such a link doesn’t exist, or isn’t substantial. In short my comment was about wildfires and US infrastructure, that doesn’t to droughts at all. You’ll notice that my original comment doesn’t contain the word “drought”.