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The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, an…
This reduced occasional problems with air quality, with the entirely predictable outcome that instead, unpredictable and intermittent catastrophes occurred, each with terrible environmental consequences that far outweighed the savings of ever-increasing regulatory pressure on hazard reduction activities. In this analysis, it is quite clearly the law that hazard reduction burns are illegal, since despite their utility being extremely high and their cost almost trivially low (recall that indigenous societies that lack writing and money seem to be able to allocate the necessary resources for their successful execution) they do not occur at anything like the rate necessary to provide actual protection to people and property. Instead of being woken in the middle of the night by a phone buzzing about a custody dispute 100 miles away, we had millions of frightened people further terrorized by a governing apparatus that not only can’t manage basic fire prevention, they also can’t build a public notification system without pushing the big red button by accident!
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