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Newsom has 11-word response — with a four-letter word — to Trump’s climate moves
(www.sfchronicle.com)
The response itself is here:
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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I know but it's also a bit of a cop out from the ones responsible for this. There are controllable factors that the state just ignored for years on end.
I'm all for renewable energy and limiting climate change as much as we can but theres a reason thousands of homes doesn't go up in flames in Sweden or Finland. Both of those countries manage their forests and does fire prevention regularly.
It's hard to compare with Finland and Sweden. They don't face the same combinaison of climate and high-speed wind events which LA is suffering from.
Also, we affect the climate. So we can and should reduce our impact on climate AND do better fire prevention.
Fire prevention alone isn't going to avoid large scale fires if the climate keep worsening like that.
True, they don't have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.
I'm not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.
Very hard call. It is rainy season, but drought during rainy season. If it rains next week, problem solved. If you remove all vegetation now, and it rains next week, mud slides.
Mud slides comes when you remove too many trees. You can remove a lot of shrubbery without increasing chances of mud slide.
That's possible.
Also, AC could probably prevent all heat-related death. But using AC in all buildings on earth, all the time, is not a viable option.