How To Prevent California Fires

[oujour76]

In a nutshell, this guy is saying politics and money get in the way of doing the right thing. It will probably take a catastrophic event like a major city going up in flames before anybody listens.

"The only real path toward meaningful change looks politically impossible. Goulette said we need to scrap the system and rethink what we could do with Cal Fire’s annual budget: Is this really the best thing we could do with several billion dollars to be more resistant to wildfire? Goulette knows this suggestion is so laughably distasteful and naive to those in power that uttering it as the director of a nonprofit like the Watershed Research and Training Center gets you kicked out of the room."

www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[DrSchadenfreude]

But, Harry, I thought you said that Antarctic ice was increasingly bigly.

Are you finally admitting that burning fossil fuels has caused catastrophic climate change?

[Mickey34jb]

Sept 3, 2020 10:36:14 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

In a nutshell, this guy is saying politics and money get in the way of doing the right thing. It will probably take a catastrophic event like a major city going up in flames before anybody listens.

"The only real path toward meaningful change looks politically impossible. Goulette said we need to scrap the system and rethink what we could do with Cal Fire’s annual budget: Is this really the best thing we could do with several billion dollars to be more resistant to wildfire? Goulette knows this suggestion is so laughably distasteful and naive to those in power that uttering it as the director of a nonprofit like the Watershed Research and Training Center gets you kicked out of the room."

www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I was listening to guy who told a reporter that he spent thousands to surround his house with a water system to keep fires at bay and away from his house__when the fire approached, he went to turn on his system___and finds out that the city had the water turned off. He saved himself but lost his house

[oujour76]

Sept 3, 2020 20:06:00 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Sept 3, 2020 10:36:14 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

In a nutshell, this guy is saying politics and money get in the way of doing the right thing. It will probably take a catastrophic event like a major city going up in flames before anybody listens.

"The only real path toward meaningful change looks politically impossible. Goulette said we need to scrap the system and rethink what we could do with Cal Fire’s annual budget: Is this really the best thing we could do with several billion dollars to be more resistant to wildfire? Goulette knows this suggestion is so laughably distasteful and naive to those in power that uttering it as the director of a nonprofit like the Watershed Research and Training Center gets you kicked out of the room."

www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I was listening to guy who told a reporter that he spent thousands to surround his house with a water system to keep fires at bay and away from his house__when the fire approached, he went to turn on his system___and finds out that the city had the water turned off. He saved himself but lost his house

Bet he was pissed.

[Mickey34jb]

Sept 3, 2020 20:43:59 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Sept 3, 2020 20:06:00 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

I was listening to guy who told a reporter that he spent thousands to surround his house with a water system to keep fires at bay and away from his house__when the fire approached, he went to turn on his system___and finds out that the city had the water turned off. He saved himself but lost his house

Bet he was pissed.

Yep__It was a radio interview__real pissed.

[Buckeye Dale]

Sept 3, 2020 22:12:31 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Sept 3, 2020 20:43:59 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Bet he was pissed.

Yep__It was a radio interview__real pissed.

Maybe if he'd been really, really pissed, he coulda saved his house...