Wildfire management LTTE

[SAJ-99]

Sorry you missed the point. The point you made about costs of prescribed burns vs. wildfire. There's no comparison in costs. Homes are destroyed, lived are changed forever. People die.

You missed my point. No one is arguing that Rx burns are beneficial and I'm not trying to say it wouldn't be cheaper in the long run. The issue is that the areas that need it are those that are near people and people complain about that smoke like they complain about everything else. That and insurance companies don't like the idea of lighting stuff on fire on purpose... so now they sell you insurance for that. Someday you will discover that things are never simple as they seem in your head. Go back to yelling at clouds.

 

[Irrelevant]

You're going to sue the forest for burning?

You've completely missed the point

 

[COEngineer]

You've completely missed the point

People keep writing that, but then don't explain what the point actually is.

Here's my take: You (and many, if not most, people) don't like smoke from forest fires (mostly because it's annoying and potentially dangerous, especially to people with existing respiratory health issues) and you want to blame someone. But it's not easy to figure out who to blame because we all share responsibility at some level (who we vote for, how involved we are in shaping public opinion, where we choose to live, etc, etc) and a fair amount of blame rests with our predecessors - forest (mis)management has been ongoing for more than a century. Forest fire mitigation, management, and suppression are complicated and expensive and we could be doing a lot better, but our short-sightedness makes us the worse enemies of our future.