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I’ve been a professional firefighter in California for 20 years. Currently I oversee a vegetation management program to reduce fire risk to communities.

We have money, resources and are ready to work. The Environmental regulations however take years to navigate and comply with and consume a large portion of the funds available for this work. California’s entire fire problem is a direct result of foolish policies.

It goes back to the USFS suppressing naturally occurring fire for over100 years resulting in excessive fuels in our wild lands.

Now the State of California is tying the hands of local communities in repairing the damage through nonsensical environmental regulations that prioritize red legged frogs or “spotted owl habitat” that hasn’t seen a spotted owl since the 80’s over human lives and property.

The government will blame everything and everyone except their own policies which are the real culprit.

The incentives are so screwed up that no one is really interested in actually fixing the issue because everyone is grifting off the system. Fires are big money for both Private contractors and government employees as is environmental compliance consulting.

There, I feel better now. Had to get that out.

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Tauri 1y ago

It’s the same situation across the ocean. In my country there’s one particular very narrow and dangerous road across the mountain pass that claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 20 years. For the same amount of time a highway was in the making that will replace this part of the road that is the most dangerous but the work has been frozen for years because of environmentalists that claim someone had “spotted” a Balkan lynx 80 years ago around the place the highway was been built.

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Chris Neal 1y ago

Thanks for sharing, it’s a world wide environmental grift. Insane and evil that these things take priority over human lives. Environmental extremist groups have way too much influence and power.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

it's not "grift" it's transhumanism / neo-malthusianism.

i would say eco-fascism but i am a fascist so i don't like the term.

the other name for it is "rewilding"

it is happening everywhere. for example in Florida they are re-filling the previously drained everglades by tearing up existing highways that connected east and west coasts of Florida. they are spending tens of billions of dollars to undo half a century of development and return Florida from humans back to Alligators.

in Chicago they have bulldozed magnificent riverfront parks to return them to wilderness, again, so that instead of humans that land would go back to Animals.

and of course they are replacing whites everywhere with all sorts of retarded goblins.

REWILDING = TRANSHUMANISM

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