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It's not verboten in a single place. I've seen it mentioned literally hundreds of times the last few days.
by freddie_mercury 2y ago
It's not verboten in a single place. I've seen it mentioned literally hundreds of times the last few days.
- whimsicalism 2y agosure it's not verboten in the RW media landscape, but in blue circles you're basically called a trumpista for saying that forest & underbrush management is a larger proximate cause [0][1][2] [0]: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fast-moving-wildfires-rage-los-angeles-right-wing-media-misleadingly-blame-forest https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fast-moving-wildfires-... [1]: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/12/2296400/-Critics-blast-DEI-Dems-bad-forestry-eco-activists-for-L-A-fires-but-never-mention-climate-crisis https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/12/2296400/-Critics-... [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/09/los-angeles-fires-politics/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/09/los-angel...
- strken 2y agoI find both takes misleading. "Windy" doesn't begin to describe winds over 100km/h on a dry and warm(ish) day in an drought. You could probably bulldoze a two hundred metre barrier in front of a bushfire on a day like that and it would still spread from uncontrollable spot fires ahead of the front. I'm not sure any forestry practices could do much against it. Are strong winds directly caused by climate change? Sure, extreme weather events are more common, but it's impossible to say whether any given event would have happened anyway. Reversing climate change might make really bad days less frequent, but it's no more capable of eradicating them than good forestry.
- freddie_mercury 2y ago"right-wing media misleadingly blame forest mismanagement" and "Critics blast DEI, Dems, bad forestry, eco-activists for L.A. fires but never mention climate crisis" is "basically called a trumpista"? Okay, whatever.