We can’t stop wildfires, but we can mitigate their devastating effects. There has to be a political will for anything to change, though. We’ve seen the state move very quickly when it wants to.
Not nearly enough is being done by California’s ruling class to mitigate wildfires, as the tragic devastation in Los Angeles has shown.
Certainly, dry conditions and vicious winds fueled multiple wildfires that, at last count, had burned roughly 40,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and claimed at least 25 lives.
Yet as tragic as the losses have been, the Los Angeles fires are not “unprecedented.”
We have known for years how inadequate vegetation management, water supply issues, budget cuts and politics have prevented us from being more prepared for the next disaster.
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As Los Angeles Burns, California Prevention Failures Made Clear
Matthew Fleming
We can’t stop wildfires, but we can mitigate their devastating effects. There has to be a political will for anything to change, though. We’ve seen the state move very quickly when it wants to.
Not nearly enough is being done by California’s ruling class to mitigate wildfires, as the tragic devastation in Los Angeles has shown.
Certainly, dry conditions and vicious winds fueled multiple wildfires that, at last count, had burned roughly 40,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and claimed at least 25 lives.
Yet as tragic as the losses have been, the Los Angeles fires are not “unprecedented.”
We have known for years how inadequate vegetation management, water supply issues, budget cuts and politics have prevented us from being more prepared for the next disaster.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.