Towns are burning to the ground, because we built them in places where there never should have been towns. Furthermore, those western megafires while probably m

Towns are burning to the ground, because we built them in places where there never should have been towns. Furthermore, those western megafires while probably made worse by climate change are mostly the result of 120 years of poor forrest management policy. The drought that California and the West is seeing right now is within historical norms for the West, we just tended to ignore those norms when building population centers and developed our water expectations around the wet years.