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Posted on 09/27/2022 2:24:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GREENVILLE, Calif. — Looking back, Bradley Bentz doesn’t know what took him so long to move out of Los Angeles County.
For decades, he’d lived a short walk from the Santa Anita Park racetrack and a few minutes drive to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. It was the typical city life.
“The cars and the smog. The noise. The lights that you can’t even tell when it’s dark,” Bentz said, shaking his head as if waking up from a nightmare. “I just couldn’t do it.”
So he headed to the sparsely populated mountains of Plumas County. He joined the U.S. Forest Service, started a family and eventually settled down just outside of Greenville, becoming the second-generation owner of his father-in-law’s business, Riley’s Jerky.
This is the part of the state where climate change has become a full-fledged existential threat. Sure, Southern California is prone to its fair share of disasters, but it is in Northern California where catastrophic wildfires aren’t just likely but are certain to destroy remote small towns for decades to come.
Greenville, which burned down in last year’s Dixie fire, should serve as a potent reminder of this risk. But maddeningly, the people who love living in these rural wildlands don’t see it that way. Instead, they look at it as just one more challenge to overcome, like spotty cellphone service and far-off grocery stores and hospitals.
It’s a belief so widespread, so divorced from the terrifying reality of climate change, that the rest of us in California can’t keep ignoring it. Doing so is simply costing too many lives and too much money, and wasting too much time. Soon, living in rural Northern California won’t be as safe, as sustainable or even as beautiful as it once was. The Dixie fire was just the beginning.
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When you don’t take care of the forests they burn and you blame climate change. How does that make sense?
LOL Considering the fact if you live in California then you have a Governor whether you voted for him or not akin to a Nazi Death Camp Doctor who is all too happy to butcher the unborn gleefully and so God is not happy about that and so as the Bible verse goes Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup. Something to consider if you live in California, just saying.
These two are idiots
Even when it was only Indians
Let them grow their own damned food. Rural climate skeptics can go hunting and fishing, and be content with a small vegetable garden for their own needs. Oh, the bank? Let’s have a covid moratorium on foreclosures. Or make up some other excuse for a moratorium.
Nothing more fun than sitting back in your old age, and watching today’s know-it-all young people fall for new versions of old scams, our grandparents saw in their youth and warned us about.
Native Americans USED fire to manage their ecosystems!!!!
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm
Climate jockeys lose again!!!!
‘Upon the wicked He will rain snares;Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.’
any word about exactly when that is going to happen...?
Many of CA wild fires are set by eco zealots. It is preposterous to blame wild fires on fake climate change. Not to mention, a main concept of the Big Reset is to force people to live in urban congestion. Easier to control.
I am sure at the rate California is going will not be long.
"Environmental Justice" in action?
“This is the part of the state where climate change has become a full-fledged existential threat.”
The so-called “existential threat” is complete BS. It exists only in their warped little minds.
To wit, not a single one of their dire warnings and prediction of disaster, melting ice caps, etc. have come true. Yet they still believe climate change is real because they want it to be true. It’s their new religion. They are pathetic.
Perhaps the rural “deniers” should stop indulging you with food.
Hippies were Useful Idiots.
Yes they did
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They don’t “indulge” skeptics now. They just ignore them, hoping they’ll go away.
They don’t “indulge” skeptics now. They just ignore them, hoping they’ll go away.
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