Conspiracies and the LA Wildfires

Of Climate change, aid to Ukraine, Israel's Gaza operation, and DEI, which was a factor in the worst fires in California history?

There are many things that contributed to the devastating California wildfires. Long term policy failures center on mismanaging the state’s water resources. The Governor and state legislature failed to prioritize the building of additional water reservoirs in fire-prone Los Angeles county, and they rejected proposals for water recycling and desalination plants, like those in Israel. It was unnecessary, said the state’s elected leaders, to build such plants with excess capacity so that in the case of a fire like the one now unfolding, those plants would pump fresh water to augment the water in existing reservoirs. Environmental groups have successfully fought to stop controlled burns and programs designed to clear flammable debris in forests and to manage potential fire hazards in new housing development landscaping.

There are also short-term failures. Elected officials failed to pay heed to a National Weather Service warning nearly a week before the first fire. That warning did not st…