{"id":12626,"date":"2020-09-17T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2020-09-16T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T04:07:25","slug":"the-same-old-same-old-california-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-same-old-same-old-california-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Same Old, Same Old California Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fall&nbsp;is almost here in California. So we know the annual script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few ostracized voices will again warn in vain of the need to remove millions of dead trees withered from the 2013\u201314 drought and subsequent infestations, clean up tinderbox hillsides, and beef up the fire services. They will all be ignored as right-wing nuts or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmentalists will sneer that the new forestry sees fires as medicinal and natural, and global warming as inevitable because of \u201cclimate deniers.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late-summer fires will then consume our foothills, mountains, and forests. Long-dead trees from the drought will explode and send their pitch bombs to shower the forest with flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lives, livelihoods, homes, and cabins will be lost \u2014 the lamentable collateral damage of our green future. Billions of dollars will go up in smoke. The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months. Tens of thousands will be evacuated and their lives disrupted \u2014 and those are the lucky.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/california-forest-fires-taxes-homelessness-same-old-fall-problems\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Fall&nbsp;is almost here in California. So we know the annual script. A few ostracized voices will again warn in vain of the need to remove millions of dead trees withered from the 2013\u201314 drought and subsequent infestations, clean up tinderbox hillsides, and beef up the fire services. They will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9014,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/lessons-from-californias-drought\/","url_meta":{"origin":12626,"position":0},"title":"Lessons From California\u2019s Drought","author":"Megan Ring","date":"February 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Defining Ideas Image credit: Barbara Kelley By the end of 2015, it had begun raining and snowing throughout California after fifty months of\u00a0drought. 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