Gavin ‘Smokey’ Newsom is embracing change. After years of denying that poor forest management was responsible for the annual escalation in wildfires across his state, he’s decided to try something new. He’s taking advice from Donald Trump.
Advice Donald Trump could have picked up from an army of observers, including GraniteGrok.
So, what is this wildfire preventing wisdom? It’s about as old as the idea of being proactive about preventing wildfires in the first place if I had to guess. It is also a common-sense forest management technique that works equally well for sluggish corporations, the bureaucracy, and every level of an elected government.
Related: US Forest Fire Data Tampering – They Disappeared 57-Years of Inconvenient Truth.
Clean out the deadwood.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday announced a deal with state legislature leadership to draw down $536 million to kick off projects to prepare for the upcoming wildfire season. The new plan is in budget legislation Newsom said will be considered by lawmakers as early as Monday and signed by Tuesday. … The funds will be used to increase efforts to thin forests, build fuel breaks around vulnerable communities and invest in infrastructure hardening to protect structures.
And just so we’re clear as Vodka, maskless at the French Laundry during a lockdown, Gavin is still blaming Climate Change. He’s just decided that since that’s the real problem, and it’s causing more wildfires, while we wait to get everyone behind the wheel of one of those even less environmentally friendly and impractical EV’s, that he’ll drop a dime to clear away some downed trees and brush.
You know, just in case that might save a few constituent homes or businesses in the run-up to his recall election.
HT | Legal Insurrection
