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Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net)
California's devastating wildfires are causing unhealthy air conditions for locals breathing in harmful fumes. From a report: In San Francisco, which currently has the second-worst-rated air quality out of any city in the world, one driver was spotted selling N95 respirator masks for $5 apiece. That's significantly above market rate. Right now you can buy a 10-pack of similar masks for about $13 on Amazon. But considering the masks are sold out at many local stores, riders may be willing to dish out the cash for immediate access to the protective gear. Further reading: California needs to reinvent its fire policies, or the death and destruction will go on.
most of the land that's going up in smoke is Federal. As has been pointed out in previous threads the Fed needs to fund clearing dead trees, but that's expensive and those tax cuts don't pay for themselves (no, they really don't).
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Don't worry about it.
Those Red state Republican enthusiasts hate California because it shows the liberal policies can lead to a great economy and a great place to live.
It shows the lies that are spun by the right for what they are.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
While the controlled burns and clearing haven't stopped, they've absolutely been reduced. Every article I've read so far has confirmed this. However, it doesn't sound like a one issue problem. (ie the California government is stopping the forest management from doing controlled burns) It sounds like there are multiple agencies involved, and they may have contradictory agendas. If air quality is important to one, and controlled burns harm air quality,then it's hard to justify burning. Additionally, more harms are being built in these regions, making controlled burning a more difficult prospect. Now forest management has to worry about the impacts the fire/smoke may have on residents.
Most of these lands are federal lands, and federal investment in forest management hasn't kept up with the needs. CA doesn't have the funding or manpower to treat the problems which spread across millions of acres of land. The constant drought CA has been experiencing makes it even more imperative to do prevention, but since that drought is spread so far, there's no way they have the resources to do the prevention...
Do I even need to get into PG&E not doing their due diligence to ensure their lines don't start fires in sensitive areas?
Needless to say, this is a catastrophic end to a problem that's resulted from multiple factors that are all difficult to manage in their own right.
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It's the ever-growing realization that they are inconsequential muppets leading a meaningless existence.
Raging against some manufactured -ism, group of -ists, or even the big bad Orange Man himself gives them a fulfilling purpose.
When the real world turns away and refuses to pay attention to them, they instead attack each other in a frothing, churning display of one-upsmanship as each subset tries to establish itself as more victimized, more woke, and more worthy of attention.
I just posted a bunch of links showing that yes that is ongoing.
Hell even as the fires are raging the Santa Barbara fire chief is still getting pushback on creating a firebreak.
Just by the evidence of the forests burning in massive conflagrations it's hard to see how you can say "Forest management in California is not in bad shape"