Paradise regained? Experts call for European approach to US housing [tasteless; CA wildfires]

Agence France-Presse ^ | 21 Nov 2018

[Olog-hai]

With the embers still raining from blackened skies choked by California’s massive wildfires, the effort turns to rebuilding Paradise — a town of almost 30,000 that was wiped off the map.

But experts warn that with megafires the new normal in a warming global climate, housing in the western United States is going to need a revolutionary rethink along the lines of villages dotting Europe’s wooded slopes.

“I think people are thinking about if there is a way we can design the new Paradise that can look like more of a European village or a ski town, and not have houses out in the forests,” said Bill Stewart, co-director of the Center for Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Stewart suggests the approach seen in the Pyrenées mountains straddling France and Spain — villages surrounded by pastures with the forest further beyond — may be the model for California’s future. “It would be a lot safer if we didn’t have people basically living in the fuel,” he told AFP.

The death toll in and around Paradise — in the tinder-dry northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains — stands at 81, with hundreds still missing and more than 12,600 homes destroyed since the giant Camp Fire broke out on November 8.

Climate change, poor management of forests by the US government and sharp increases in housing in the woods have all made such megafires more likely and more deadly, said Stewart. …

[I want the USA back]

“the new normal in a warming global climate”
Keep saying it enough and more people will believe it.

[Da Coyote]

The press loves to kiss Europe’s Obamahole.

Even more now that it’s becoming a mid-East sh*thole.

[Da Coyote]

Great chart. Backs up my long standing premise that math is not a friend of liberals.

[Spitzensparkin1]

E. Pluribus Unum wrote: "We need to concentrate the peasants into confined areas so we can round them up when the time comes."

Yes, and so in 11-2018 the implementation of Agenda 21 begins.