I understand everything you've said up to this point. And a lot of Californians feel the way you do.
But, what infrastructure and what code enforcement stops 80 mile per hour winds from blowing flames?
Accepting climate change is part of the problem. Simultaneous to mitigation of effects (and again, what have you got for fire and 80 mile per hour winds?), we need to be actively reducing our contribution. And that's where party politics comes in:
The Democrats in California do this:
Following Governor Newsom’s call for more ambitious climate action, state’s climate plan would create 4 million new jobs, slash greenhouse gas emissions by 85%, and cut oil usage by 94%
www.gov.ca.gov
The Republicans in Washington do this:
The Biden administration approved California's authority to enforce stricter vehicle emissions standards, just before Donald Trump takes office vowing to reverse the decision. Alex Nieves and Debra Kahn report for POLITICO. In short: The EPA granted California permission to enforce...
www.dailyclimate.org
California moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the three California University systems move to be carbon zero by 2045 and it's derided as "The Green New Scam".
Seriously?
The opposite of virtue signaling would be "vice signaling". Is that what conservatives do when they vote against wildfire prevention funding and carbon emissions reductions?
"Virtue signaling" is such a horseshit term. Someone accused me of virtue signaling during the pandemic because I wore a mask. They shut right up when I said that my wearing a mask to protect someone else's health was no more virtue signaling than them washing their hands before making someone else a sandwich.
I said I'd be happy to discuss it further over lunch, but only if I got to pick the restaurant.
I'm sorry---you
left because California was raising taxes all the time, right?
And again, the odds of that in the next four years are?
The cost overruns on high-speed rail are indefensible. Should have been finished years ago.
And again, skip super unpopular and costly (and never mind that the opposition party would exploit that to the point that people would demand those measures be abandoned like....well, like high-speed rail.
Whaddya got for fire blowing through the air in 80 mph winds? What do you think anyone else has, even if they had Elon Musk money?
Exactly.
