Did you read the entire article? While it's nice that the whackos are finally admitting you have to do controlled burns to manage forests properly, they are still focused on things like "carbon" and "climate change" with a religious ferver. I lost track of how many times the article mentioned carbon and 'climate change'. It made it difficult to make it through it, because it was so loaded with nonsense.
What is especially glaring is the way they think of trees as not much more than a carbon sink. At the same time, they appear to have no awareness whatsoever that trees are not immortal. They live and grow, and thus accumulate mass, and eventually die and decay, releasing that mass back into the environment. The planet is a closed system, yet they are completely unaware of that fact. It's an astounding blind spot.
Yes, I went back and read it. I skimmed it the first time. Silly me.
Your analysis is very good.
It would be comical if the end result of what they want wouldn’t be trillions of dollars out of our pockets. (what they really want is control over citizen’s lives and wallets, a reduction of national sovereignty with accompanying increase in global sovereignty, all coupled with de-industrialization, but they aren’t honest enough to come out and say that, so they try to scare people into thinking it is in their best interests.)
I find their odd view of trees as carbon sinks completely silly, but what is even more astonishing is their inability to see that they themselves on the Left with their environmental zealots and absurd restrictions and demands bear the greatest degree of responsibility for what we are seeing. The fact that they largely oppose the measures needed to reduce the risk of uncontrolled burns (due to their viewpoint that those measures negatively impact both the environment and the wildlife in that environment) is almost laughably ironic, given that huge amounts of pollution are being thrown into the air and the habitats of millions of creatures are being destroyed due to this viewpoint.
Dan Bongino had a very good analysis yesterday of the stupidity of this, and how they want to make PG&E out to be modern day Snidely Whiplash capitalists in top hats who are sacrificing the environment for profits, when it is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the USA, and probably the MOST heavily regulated in California. The state sets their rates, requires them to spend money on thousands of dollars to install FREE car recharging stations for wealthy Californians (instead of updating infrastructure they ALSO say is responsible for starting the fires).