2025 in America started off with a bang -a New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, a bizarre Green Beret suicide/truck explosion in front of a Trump hotel, and Hurricane Helene victims in NC facing being left out in the cold, as FEMA was set to close temporary housing centers, right as a major snow storm was set to hit. Then this past week LA has had apocalyptic type forest fires raging in LA, while the local officials make excuses for epic response failures and lack of preparedness – again.
While I feel terrible for the people who have lost their homes in these LA fires, policy failures set the conditions to make this situation so much worse and people in CA, for decades keep voting for Democrats, who set these bad policies. So, I wonder if the people or leaders in CA will change course on these failed environmental/social justice policies or if they will buy into all the excuses being floated. The Maui fires were so deadly and destructive due to the same crazy environmental/social justice policies, but the media just breezed on to other news. The people of CA need to choose whether they prefer to virtue signal about liberal causes or take practical steps to prepare for wildfires and other natural disasters.
And really, the other question is, if you believe climate change has made storms and these Santa Ana winds more extreme, then wouldn’t you want to implement more extreme fire mitigation efforts, like aggressively clear brush, build fire breaks and buff up your firefighting resources?
I don’t like Trump’s petty name-calling tone, but he’s been right about clearing underbrush and forest management and has said this many times since 2017. CA governor, Gavin Newsom, on the other hand, has pushed the radical environmental policies that certainly exacerbated these LA fires. Trump has been right about forest management and fire mitigation – that’s the truth. It’s past time for Democrat leaders to quit the Trump hysteria, whining about “disinformation” and start caring more about the people they’re supposed to be representing.
All these pie-in-sky “climate change” policies, chasing after some nebulous Net Zero human-caused emissions, have been pursued at the expense of not doing the common sense mitigation efforts to prepare for obvious serious weather events. Failing to do prescribed burns, clearing underbrush, build fire breaks and buff up firefighting resources, while allowing homeless people to takeover streets, public spaces and land, is willfully setting the conditions for more dangerous fires. This is how CA has set their priorities. Homeless people do set fires for warmth and to cook and they’re not going to be using environmentally-friendly fuels. There have already been reports of homeless people trying to start fires in LA, even knowing these fires and winds are raging in LA.
Now, responsible homeowners are homeless due to these fires and while certainly they need our help and prayers, let’s hope this is a red-pill event for many and they realize how insane these radical environmental/social justice policies are. If the people of LA go back to liberal virtue-signaling and blaming climate change rather than make dramatic practical changes to their fire preparedness, well, that’s a choice. After this catastrophe – they have to be aware that fire preparedness is a matter of their survival.
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