@squatz1
So essentially the common human nature of being reactive instead of proactive. You'd think with the history of drought and wildfires in California there would be an intelligent policy change in regards to combating these events. This is going to continue as long as they allow it. Geography certainly isn't helping.
Seems the politicians and officials in California care more about social issues like pushing gender neutral pronouns on everyone than they do the infrastructure of the state and well being of their citizens.
Arizona bay anyone?
Yeah, the problem is that controlled burns do cause a good deal of pollution -- probably not as much as a forest fire, but usually the biggest opposition comes from the localities near the controlled fire. As while it is 'controlled' there is sometimes where thing can get out of hand. So the people around them are nervous.
You'd much rather see proactive policies -- look here for a good deal of them
https://calmatters.org/explainers/solving-california-wildfires-why-dont-we-do-these-things/This source explains the pros and cons of common talking points when we're talking about forest fires.