[ExI] an unfortunate investment in trees

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:34 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The fires are worse than they might be because the woods are denser than
> they would be if people had not worked so hard for decades to - guess
> what - stop fires!
>
> Can we hope for a policy shift, to tolerate small fires to keep the tree
> population at a more natural density?
>
> That would mean more rationality than is typical in public policy.
>

I'm pretty sure California's foresters know how to manage forests to
minimize the risk of uncontrollable fires, that they've communicated that
to their superiors, and that that communication has reached the political
level, where those suggestions have been deemed not conducive to
re-election.

-Dave
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