I just read an interesting article on preventing California wildfires by Sashi McEntee, mayor of Mill Valley, CA. She states that people must take direct responsibility for their circumstances. Blaming climate change or other factors does not reduce the need for “Vegetation management, Evacuation planning, Early detection and alert systems, and Neighborhood preparedness”
I recall all the people who cheered the old ladies who chained themselves to trees and said something like, “Every tree is precious!”. There was another woman in Oregon who built a tree house and sequestered herself in it to prevent it from being cut down. Admirable at the time but creating a policy that has come to haunt us now.
Every tree is not precious. Some have to go so that others may stand. Nature takes care of this in a natural manner but humans seem to think they know better. No logging to thin the forest, no roads to create fire breaks, no natural fires to clear the underbrush.
Who or what will save the forests from all these good intentions? The Law of Unintentional Consequences dictates that the more we try save nature, the more we will destroy it.
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