Noah Smith on L.A: fire lessons

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The best piece I have seen so far, here is one bit:

Basically, the lessons I take away from the horrific L.A. fires are:

The insurance industry as we know it is in big trouble.
Climate change is making wildfires worse, but there’s not much we can do about that right now.
Forest management needs to get a lot more proactive, but is being blocked by regulation.
Wildfire preparedness is just a lot more important than it used to be.

And this:

Patrick Brown of the Breakthrough Institute estimates that in order to achieve the maximum economic benefit from wildfire suppression, California should be doing almost 4 times as much controlled burning as it currently aims to do, and almost 8 times as much as it’s currently doing. The gains over the last few years are welcome, but also woefully insufficient to the task.

Here is the entire essay.  And this guy has a background in fires and forest management, a good piece.

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