A few photos of the LA Fire

It's just due to normal for the season strong winds carrying fire to an area of SoCal underprepared for this. If it was up north where firefighters are a bit more on guard for bush fires (ever since PG&E decided to burn down multiple cities) it definitely wouldn't've developed as bad. It's likely bad forest managements played a role, especially again due to SoCal's less experience with forest fires. Though there's been major reform ever since the fires of 2019/2020, you can't fix every forest everywhere in a short amount of time, especially in a state with the largest forests outside of Alaska. !commenters !followers

I can't speak for California but blue states in general have r-slurred policy when it comes to nature, for the sake of pleasing their dipshit constituents who don't understand anything.

In NJ, Murphy removed the black bear hunt some years ago against guidance of The Scientists™️ who study conservation. Then a few years after they were all over the place running into humans and causing a ruckus. He purely did it as a political move and it backfired horribly. He refused to believe that a yearly controlled hunt keeps the population in line.

Blame the wine mom libshits who want to give Alaska back to the caribou and what not for these stupid policies.

Environmentalists prevented the government from doing controlled burns. Whoops!

Unfortunately yes. In 2007 the Sierra Club successfully sued the Forest Service to prevent them from creating a Categorical Exclusion (CE) to NEPA for controlled burns (the technical term is "fuel reduction"). The CE would have allowed the forest service to conduct burns without…

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The government is very at fault. Here's my favorite story about California bureaucracy.

Controlled burns prevent giant devastating forest fires like this, but the smoke from a controlled burn is considered human-caused pollution. In order to get approval to cause pollution, you need to go through an obnoxious bureaucratic approval process. The windows for safe controlled burns are very short and not easily predicted far in advance. By the time they can go through the r-slurred approval process, the window has closed.

So they don't do controlled burns, and half of LA burns down, killing whombstever and burning down 50 million buildings. And also, releasing ungodly amounts of horrifying pollution into the atmosphere. But that's okay, because the California government doesn't consider that pollution to be human-caused.

CA blames all their fire problems on climate change and somehow think that means they don't need to be solved.