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@ted
learning as much as i can about wildfires. prescribed burns are a prevention tactic to reduce the buildup of vegetation that could serve as fire fuel. it takes an avg of 4.7 yrs for a prescribed burn to get through environmental reviews. 80M acres need urgent treatment — that means now, not in 5 years. maddening!
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@ted
academic policy paper on this for those interested: https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00301-y also learned there’s an large amount of startups globally using AI + sensors or satellites (or both) for fire detection and a small but growing number using robots / drones for firefighting.
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Do you associate wildfires with climate change? It might be an insensitive question, it just feels like they are getting worse every year and we are completely moloch’d from solving it.
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Mark Fishman
@markfishman
Environmental reviews are a practice with great intention and absolutely terrible outcomes We live in a society that demands moving faster than ever and our governments have only slowed down
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@m0nt0y4
This tweet was super enlightening about the issue: https://x.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/1877049594313314525 Basically, there have been attempts to solve this issue, but certain groups have fought those attempts tooth & nail and been successful.
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when aus had its big fires a few yrs ago there was a lot of discussion about this. usually it boils down to management of the area VS. social justice worriers many such cases
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https://warpcast.com/timber/0x3abd335b
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Giuliano Giacaglia
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So many trivial things that could have been done. A massive failure in many different areas caused it. Californians need to wake up
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@kdaniels.eth
https://x.com/scubaryan_/status/1877196833962824049?s=46
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I wonder how much more damage will we all have to endure in the name of stupid climate policies. Australia apparently does it the same way California does with exactly the same result. You got natural fires, our gov hates us so much they let rivers flood us regularly.
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@jayce
welp, that might be changing very very soon
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yes, controlled fires are better than waiting for fire deadwood if accumulated is very dangerous
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how can these processes take so long, openai got first in the world capable ai model in less years?!
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https://x.com/geiger_capital/status/1876994486330421632?s=46
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@kdaniels.eth
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-los-angeles-wildfires-podcast-video-prediction-forecast-warning-2012197
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They teach about the Santa Ana winds in firefighter school. They have said for years that one year the right conditions will happen and it will burn to the ocean. No controlled burns or anything people do can stop it. This year was not one of those conditions, this happened because of Democrat Soros funded policies which defunded the department and failed to filled the reservoir. There is a fine line between incompetence and maliciousness.
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really sorry about all that…
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tldr (tim reilly)
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It’s hard for parents to realize that too much coddling harms their kids It’s hard for builders to realize that too much planning harms their work And it’s hard for citizens to realize that too much regulation harms their state
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I often think how much better off the U.S. would be if we invested in ourselves first. Maybe it’s a reminder to improve me before I buildout my business. Rhetorical. But California’s ongoing drought is not looked at seriously by anyone who could change things. As we lose more of our natural beauty I wonder if Americans will leave in droves?
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Prescribed burns are a proven tactic, but the system slows progress to a crawl. In California, bureaucratic gridlock and lawsuits often delay burns by 6+ years far too late to stop disasters like the Camp Fire (2018), where mismanaged fuel loads turned Paradise into ashes. Same with the Maui fires (2023), untreated brush set the stage for catastrophe. With 80M acres in need of urgent treatment, prevention can't wait 5 years for a green light. Wildfires move faster than paperwork. Many such cases.
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