It's the perfect storm created by human stupidity

About the fires in Los Angeles

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The Los Angeles fires are the perfect storm. This is just a classic example: all roads go to one place, all cards end up as a royal flush.

Given: pyrogenic biome ( a set of ecosystems of one natural-climatic zone - editor's note ). That is, a biome for which fire is an integral part of the self-reproduction mechanism. The Californian biome (as well as the Mediterranean) is like a phoenix: if it doesn’t burn, it won’t grow. The strategies are different: there are plants whose seeds germinate only after exposure to a terrible fire (for example, cistus in the Mediterranean), there are plants with fire-resistant trunks (cork oak in the Mediterranean, sequoia in California, etc.). Moreover, the Californian biome (as well as the Mediterranean) is by no means the result of natural selection.

This is a landscape shaped by man. Indians all over America hunted, setting fires to forests and driving game into fires, and as a result, in the 9th–8th millennium BC. forests consisting primarily of fire-resistant species were replaced by forests of pyrophytic trees ( a group of plants resistant to fire - editor's note ), mainly pine trees with long trunks protected by fire-resistant bark and the absence of lower branches. These are mainly Pinus palustris and Pinus ponderosa (the latter is just in California).

As a result, the white people who came to America were greeted with an unprecedented sight. In contrast to the European windbreaks, they saw forests devoid of any undergrowth, forests that looked like an endless hall of tall pine columns, a forest-highway along which the Indians moved for game at great speed in any direction. The Europeans decided that these forests grew like this on their own. In fact, this was not the case. It’s just that the Indians regularly burned these forests. Regular ground fire destroyed the undergrowth, and the fire-resistant ponderosa trunks did not burn.

The pyrogenic biome, as you understand, is not a gift for the sedentary owner of a 10 million dollar bungalow. This pyrogenic biome may require fire to reproduce itself, but the owner of the bungalow is not part of this biome. And he wouldn't want to burn.

Condition two. Green radicals, whose ideas about “pristine nature” are approximately the same as communists’ ideas about economics. The Greens prohibit cutting down forests and setting ground fires, as the Indians did, in order to preserve the “natural forest,” after which the above-mentioned forest turns into a powder keg, ready to burst into flames at the slightest match. It is forbidden to build dams and accumulate water, so as not to ruin the life of the smelt fish (the smelt is now cooked). The head of the fire department is appointed LGBTCPSS+ ( the “international LGBT movement” is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation - editor’s note ), which sets the department’s main goal to fight not fires, but for gender diversity of personnel. And the lady, her deputy, publicly says that the most important thing for a fire victim is to see a face in a moment of misfortune that you can trust because he is of the same gender (and we thought that the most important thing at this time is to be able to put out a fire ), and to the question: “Can you carry my husband out of the fire?” - replies that if your husband was on fire, it means that he was in the wrong place.

Point three. All this is happening with a terribly growing population, and this population consists of two categories.

• The first is millionaires who begin to settle on the ocean shore (where the winds are crazy) and on the slope of a mountain covered with gunpowder forest. They congratulate themselves on the occasion of unity with nature. Any cigarette butt, any accidentally fallen electrical wire... It would seem that what could go wrong? Just in case there are not enough forests turned into powder magazines, local alleys are planted with palm trees (which are so fun to extinguish when they burn at a height of 20 meters) and eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus globulus.

Eucalyptus is a unique tree, an arsonist tree. The thin long strips of bark that peel off from it serve as ideal kindling for the fire to rise upward, turning from a ground fire to a top fire, and the essential oils that eucalyptus releases spontaneously ignite at 60 degrees Celsius. This is the eucalyptus’s way of fighting competitors: the fire itself does not harm it, it grows back, and to such an extent that there are cases when eucalyptus trees were destroyed three times with flamethrowers, but they still grew back.

• The second type of population is the homeless. Homeless people live downtown, sleep on the sidewalks, look with envy at the rich neighborhoods in Malibu, and suddenly discover that when the neighborhood burns, all the millionaires run away and they can rob.

Insurance companies are looking at all this with open mouths. They understand perfectly well that the writing on the wall is already “mene, tekel, fares”, and exclusively in fiery letters, and, of course, they increase insurance rates. This is where the social justice and diversity zealots on the city council step in and stop companies from raising their rates so that nasty capitalists don't profit from the problems of suburbanites with $10-$200 million homes.

As a result, insurance companies give up and leave for somewhere in Oregon. They are not going to insure houses in the middle of a powder magazine on a windswept coast under such conditions.

It would seem, what could go wrong?

That's what I say: the perfect storm.

Oh yes. With the current level of regulations and building permits in California, the owner of such a burned-out house (actually worth 50 million on the market and without insurance) may find that he will have to negotiate a building permit for five years, but the taxes he will pay on the new house will exceed the price at which he bought this house of his twenty years ago.

But the most important thing here is that leftists have two magic words that explain it all. Those two magic words are global warming. Global warming is to blame. And of course, Trump.

After all, Pinus Ponderosa, which in its natural habitat (without green ones) burns every 10 years, formed as a species more than 5 million years ago and captured the mountain slopes in California 8-9 thousand years ago at the instigation of local Indians, it simply formed such natural life cycle in anticipation of anthropogenic global warming. How I felt. According to Lamarck.

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