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California wild fires are due to failed government. Germany has tons of forests and doesn’t have these problems. Had my house burn down due to wild fire. So I

• cameldrv 4y ago
  Ironically much of the problem in California is that California essentially adopted German forest management practices, which don't work in California, because Germany has a very different climate. Germany is much wetter, and so when a tree falls in the forest, in Germany it rots. In much of California, it just sits there until it catches fire. What this means is that in Germany, suppressing every fire is a good strategy, because eventually the energy embedded in the dead wood is consumed by bacteria. In California, it can only be consumed by fire (or potentially mechanical removal). Constant suppression only serves to make the fires much worse when they inevitably do happen.
• TSiege 4y ago
  I'm sorry you lost your home. I can only imagine that being devastating. It's unfair how the crisis shakes out As others have said, California is an ecosystem used to fires. It's integral to their function. Repressed burning by following a European style of land management has led to this issue becoming exacerbated and combined with the shifting climate, what we're calling the mega drought, leading to mega fires.
• omginternets 4y ago
  Germany’s forests are cold and wet.