cubictoaster

This is too cynical.

One party denies climate change, the other acknowledges it at least.

One result opens the door, the other closes it.

The election will absolutely decide our fate.

But I agree with you regarding continuing to push after the election. If by some chance we can get the door open, it'll take continued social pressure & outreach to truly make progress.

Didn't you say we started fighting fires right after the gold rush?

You'd expect maybe after 30 or 40 years in 1900, we would have seen the massive statewide fires like we have now.

But I find it hard to believe we have to wait all the way until 2017 to see the results of "fighting fires"

Can you point me to your source for the last time 3.1M acres of land burned in California in the span of a month?

Global warming is the cake. We have a small window of opportunity to decide if it's a cake made of shit or if it's a mildly overcooked chocolate cake.

I don't get it. While I wasn't alive in the period immediately following the gold rush, I've been here over 40 years and I don't ever remember fires blanketing our entire state in smoke for extended periods of time until recently.

Did we just get lucky somehow between the Gold Rush and 2018?

I agree w/ you on global effort for climate change. Hopefully we can get started on a National level soon.

I don't get why we talk about forest management as if it's the main culprit for what's going on right now.

Don't y'all remember between 2012 and 2017 the west coast went through a MASSIVE DROUGHT? Are Californians really this forgetful?

The constant dry heat waves killing off large swaths of our forests is the thing that is now providing the tinder for our massive fires. Other states like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are experiencing the same thing. It's not just California.

I've been here a long time and I don't ever remember experiencing smoke smothering our cities for weeks on end until these past few years.

Calling out forest management like it's some sort of magic bullet is kind of like telling individuals to stop using straws to clean up ocean waste.

Sure, it might help a little but it doesn't really solve the root cause systemic issue: Climate Change.