I’m from California. 

In the 70s California got swept up in holistic pseudoscience. 

“Nature is robust and will naturally heal itself.”

Thus, forest management and dead/deceased tree and  scrubrush removal is totally unnecessary. Fires are natural. 

And water management is unnatural. 

(furthermore, not doing anything saves tons of $ state budget)

Before California was settled, a typical fire season was 12 million acres. 

Now a bad fire season might be 3.5 million acres. 

(God forbid we have a “natural” fire year)

Somehow destruction and damage and lives never factored into the holistic natural calculation. 

Wokeness kills.