I’ve been a professional firefighter in California for 20 years. Currently I oversee a vegetation management program to reduce fire risk to communities.
We have money, resources and are ready to work. The Environmental regulations however take years to navigate and comply with and consume a large portion of the funds available for this work. California’s entire fire problem is a direct result of foolish policies.
It goes back to the USFS suppressing naturally occurring fire for over100 years resulting in excessive fuels in our wild lands.
Now the State of California is tying the hands of local communities in repairing the damage through nonsensical environmental regulations that prioritize red legged frogs or “spotted owl habitat” that hasn’t seen a spotted owl since the 80’s over human lives and property.
The government will blame everything and everyone except their own policies which are the real culprit.
The incentives are so screwed up that no one is really interested in actually fixing the issue because everyone is grifting off the system. Fires are big money for both Private contractors and government employees as is environmental compliance consulting.
There, I feel better now. Had to get that out.
#fire #grownostr
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Listening to the Noagenda podcast from nostr:nprofile1qqsqmma7fnc9mxk0ahtph9ppul9kkusktd8xwjvyqvs8xk3863lpg3cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9thwden5te0v35hgar09ec82c30wfjkccteqwhq8j I already knew about these skewed incentives. A couple of your colleagues have already written in to the show over the years addressing these issues. My prayers are directed at the good people of California. Even though this kind of disconnect between decisions makers and the work floor is universal. I pray for a resolution and connection to a commen sense aproch. Let's hope this is the last warning and things will change for the better!
That is the hope. It’s become such a huge mess over the years. If the State and feds can get out of the way then our local communities can experiment with various programs to find out what works. Right now we’re between a rock and a hard place. Most people default to demanding more regulation. Glad the message is getting out there through folks like nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7
Well said, thank you for clarifying this for those of us not in-the-know
Thank you for pointing to the true problem:
"...everyone is grifting off the system..."
pesky humans getting sacrificed on the altar of red legged frogs and spotted owls
i would expect nothing less from Klaus Schwab and his Malthusian Minions
i actually think that Malthus was right but the difference between me and nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c is that i know California created these problems, not nature. as somebody who has studied Austrian economics i know nature is just an excuse communists use when their policies fail, which is always.
that said, to me just because we can figure out ways to support a larger population doesn't mean that we should.
we should exterminate the cockroaches because they are garbage, even if geniuses like me couldn't figure out a way to support more of their worthless biomass.
when G-d sent me to earth as a gift to mankind he didn't do it so i could help subhuman filth pass 10 billion mark.
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"even if geniuses like me *could* figure out"
edited what i thought was a mistake but it was a double negative where i didn't finish reading the sentence before editing it ...
the point is as a Eugenicists i want better people not more people. 99% of people on this planet are useless garbage.
This seems to be the issue with California politics in general. I’ve lived here for over 20 years and the nonsensical policies started to make sense when you see these empty suits like Gavin Newsom and DEI hustlers pilfering billions of dollars of tax payer money and enriching themselves in the process.
It definitely make sense through the lens of the state being run by what amounts to a criminal cartel. I really enjoyed Murray Rothbards writings on the nature of the State.
Our son went to USC in 2011. Stayed there after college. Finally had enough of ridiculous rents, out of sight gas prices, and a myriad of other exorbitant costs, fees, taxes.
And Gavin newsom’s (what a POS) enslavement of them - while that bastard dined at The French Laundry…
My son and his GF left for Texas a few months back. I can not believe Newsome won his recall by 63%. Hopefully this ends his political career, and people finally outvote the far left. Even beyond the horrific fires, It’s just sad to see what has become of that state. I wish you well sir.
100%. And the basically one party system that runs this state has created a culture of complete lack of accountability. Nothing changes in a positive direction until there is a massive disaster.
Thank you, I’m not holding my breath on people voting any better but we can hope. I’m blessed to live in a rural part of the State where we generally get left alone and can live somewhat free. but the policies are just getting more and more outrageous. We can’t buy gas powered lawnmowers but the Gov and his cronies can fly around on private jets.
😂 not quite, more like the environmental surveys are out of date and the areas I’m specifically referring to no longer have nesting populations. Fire activity has destroyed much more habitant than logging or land management practices.
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Thank you 🙏 for sharing !
Speaking of... I can never forget a sign in a bathroom in Oregon that said "We are out of toilet paper, you can wipe your ass with a spotted owl."
It’s the same situation across the ocean. In my country there’s one particular very narrow and dangerous road across the mountain pass that claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 20 years. For the same amount of time a highway was in the making that will replace this part of the road that is the most dangerous but the work has been frozen for years because of environmentalists that claim someone had “spotted” a Balkan lynx 80 years ago around the place the highway was been built.
Your note was read on the Noagenda podcast.
https://fountain.fm/episode/4lT4VFykdnmRrWZHejyU at 21:37 min in.
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That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!
Yes it’s all about the incentive structures isn’t it. It seems like all the environmental policies are these half baked fear based decisions proposed by environmental extremist groups, that were pushed through and have little or no basis in reality. Taking care of the environment is important but our environmental policies seem to not about that.
Thanks for sharing, it’s a world wide environmental grift. Insane and evil that these things take priority over human lives. Environmental extremist groups have way too much influence and power.
I hope everything goes well in the fire. I grew up in California, which is my second hometown.
it's not "grift" it's transhumanism / neo-malthusianism.
i would say eco-fascism but i am a fascist so i don't like the term.
the other name for it is "rewilding"
it is happening everywhere. for example in Florida they are re-filling the previously drained everglades by tearing up existing highways that connected east and west coasts of Florida. they are spending tens of billions of dollars to undo half a century of development and return Florida from humans back to Alligators.
in Chicago they have bulldozed magnificent riverfront parks to return them to wilderness, again, so that instead of humans that land would go back to Animals.
and of course they are replacing whites everywhere with all sorts of retarded goblins.
REWILDING = TRANSHUMANISM
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