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Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by polski-g on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:07PM (#39278986)
Climate change is the skeleton key of doing nothing. "Climate change means there is a drought" Nothing we can do about it, not build desalination plants, or raise the cost of water, or eminent domain farmers' property who refuse to relinquish their century old "water rights". Literally just complain about climate change is all we can do.
Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by XorNot on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:56PM (#39280470)
All those things are incredibly expensive and/or unpopular.

That's why no one does them.

Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by lazide on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:04PM (#39283953)
Yup. Also, they aren’t clearly actually needed right now (in the way, say, a road is needed somewhere, or a fire truck).

When there is a clear causal connection, it will be easier. By then, it will be a pretty crazy mess.