Blaming everything on #climatechange lets developers off the hook. Here in Florida, they develop flood plains, get away with it for 25 years, a 100-year storm happens, homes flood, and they call it “unprecedented.” Similar thing is happening in California woodlands. Alongside #climatesolutions we need #sustainabledevelopment and to hold developers accountable for putting ppl at risk for profit.
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@potterybyosa true story
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@potterybyosa most of the neighborhoods that burned in my hometown were developed over a century ago and didn't burn in that time
the developers aren't the issue, they've all been dead for decades
and there are no "woodlands," it's chaparral
so, no, the issues are quite different
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@potterybyosa please stop this narrative. Some of the oldest parts of LA are burning. Neighborhoods of 100 year old homes.
My family has a place in the Sierras. Built in the 1920's. The forests I grew up playing in are dying. The pines are dying off and being replaced with woodland oak and manzanita. Trees that have lived hundreds of years dead.
Huge swaths of evergreen forest are dead. It is climate change, not poor risk planning.
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@sewblue What an awful thing to witness. I'm terribly sorry. However, this isn't an either/or argument. There is always more than one factor at play. I've read a small handful of articles and papers about how development has impacted land management in that area leading to increased fire risk. Happy to share links.
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@potterybyosa There has definately been an influence from development, but the trees dying plus our new wet/dry cycles make conditions explosive and is new.
Basically, wet years allow a lot of growth. Growth that dies in drought. So when we get rain, we will have fire a few years later.
The vegetation that grows back is scrub so it burns again, because the fire resistance trees where already dying from a bark bettle that thrive in drought. So you go from fire resistant forests to chapparal that is supposed to burn.
At that home I mentioned, there was 1 major fire growing up and it was talked about in shaky tones years later. In the last 10 years they have more that I can immediately count that were just as bad.
You can't look at photos like this and blame developers. Droughts are turning forests into tinderboxes. Chapparal is becoming gasoline.
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/12/15/record-129-million-dead-trees-in-california/
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@sewblue absolutely agree. Again, not "blaming" developers but pointing out that development is a factor, especially here in Florida. Thinking of the big picture, not just Cali. In order to heal this planet, we have to consider all of the factors that come together to create these nightmarish occurrences. Thanks for the link.
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