California stopped doing backburning (part of fire prevention) in October to “preserve resources”
California stopped doing backburning (part of fire prevention) in October to “preserve resources”
Yeah no the CA fires are the perfect storm of bad management, bad policy, and bad weather. People have been saying for years that stuff needs to change, and nobody gives two hoots when it’s NorCal.
"Resources." They didn't want to pay to do the work so that citizens will bear 100% of the risks and costs even though they already paid for it. We'll also have to pay to bail out the insurance companies that I guarantee will cry that they don't have large enough reserves despite historic stock buybacks and dividends in the industry.
A failure on so many levels.
This, but for basically every for-profit insurer for the past five years. Anyone with insufficient reserves now should be nationalized because clearly their for-profit model is useless.
Thinking about the record rainfall a year ago and how much extra plant growth it stimulated that is now fuel for these fires
That's how it happens
Pretty much the same shit happened in Alberta with the forest fires last year. Budget cuts followed by devastating fires. Whoops we have no money because we gave it all to fossil fuel subsidies.
What could possibly go wrong
what could go wrong?
TEN BILLION FOR ISRAEL WILL FIX THIS