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Again, everything you said is technically true... And functionality irrelevant. California's over-suppression of fires is a bad thing that made the problem wor

Again, everything you said is technically true... And functionality irrelevant. California's over-suppression of fires is a bad thing that made the problem worse. But that's still only a tiny fraction of the problem compared to the 800lb gorilla in the room, which is climate change. We're focusing on the 1% and ignoring the 99% here, in terms of casual factors.

SllX 4y ago
If California had a different climate with different native species, you would have a point. By over-emphasizing climate change as the causal factor, you’re completely disregarding the conditions that existed prior. Wildfires were going to happen even without climate change. Probably the same wildfires, with the same amount of brush. It’s not that climate change isn’t a problem, it’s that you’re not persuading anyone that it is by over-selling it, nor would fixing climate change actually fix the issues caused by poor forest management in California. It also takes away from the fact that our forest policy is poor and as an issue also needs to be resolved independent of any actions we take to resolve climate change.