Re:PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California ear...
by thrax on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:54AM
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The connection you are trying to make is somewhat unclear. Yes, forest dwellers probably have a higher carbon footprint, but probably not much more than a wealthy city dweller. People living in the forests actually reduce the near term impact of forest fires because people don't like their stuff burning up, so they have fires put out which reduces carbon in the short term, but in the long term creates conditions for devastating megafires.
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Re:PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California ear...
by 9HZZRfNlpR on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:43AM
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I was more thinking about some of the fires that got international attention and as I understood it was because lines often short out causing fires. I don't live in America so I wasn't trying to make a connection between homeless people if that's what you thought, if anything I blamed the modern city person because they use and consume the electricity so it counts as their co2 impact.