08-17-2023, 06:41 PM
(08-17-2023, 06:27 PM)ironyak Wrote: If you want to tilt at those particular windmills, have at it. I've just put some nameplates on them.
Wildfires don't care about our imaginary property lines, governmental org charts, or the movement of green pieces of paper. They care about the physical reality of fuel, oxygen, and spark and all our current practices being called out (unmanaged invasive grasses and development at the WUI, ever-growing greenhouse gas emissions fueling greater droughts and hurricane winds, overhead power lines without methods of deenergizing the grid without shutting off waterpumps, etc) just exacerbates the risks.
Establishing firebreaks is part of the physical changes necessary and whether this is accomplished through requirements on landholders, or DNLR or OHA stepping up, or a citizen's brigade armed with weed whackers and goats, doesn't really matter. What matters is the changes to the physical reality we all actually live in first and foremost.
When you put it this way, I agree with you 100%
I especially love the word spin of the terms “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” that you have so eloquently used.