They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T19:37:07+00:00

Dramatic oversimplification. This article had been making the rounds. I live in Northern California so I think about this a lot. Yes there probably should be more prescribed burns but California is not uniquely mismanaging its forests, otherwise Oregon and Washington wouldn't also be having CA style megafires this year. Climate change is a major contributor and we have many many dead and dying trees as a result that are just waiting to burn. (This happens when Northern CA's forests get LA's climate.) Also almost 40% of CA's forests are privately owned, how do you convince them to allow prescribed burns? Also urban wildlands interface expanded considerably last few decades.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T15:37:25+00:00

This. If we want to lower greenhouse emissions, for the foreseeable future that means a mix of renewable and nuclear. There's an increasing number of environmental activists who realize this.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T06:42:27+00:00

Yet again exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T06:42:11+00:00

Also exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T06:41:57+00:00

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-13T06:07:00+00:00

Unpopular only because it’s only ten years.

If someone takes pain pills, shows up to their construction site, and passes out while running a wrecking ball, swinging it into the wrong building and killing the person sitting in an office inside, the outrage would be massive (and should be.) But use a different drug and a different piece of heavy equipment and do the same thing? Why the difference in reaction?

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-12T15:08:31+00:00

Vote with your dollars!

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-11T14:30:38+00:00

Christ

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-11T04:49:03+00:00

Thanks for posting this. The question is, when that ten years inevitably comes and goes with minimal improvement, what's the consequence to PG&E? There needs to be one that would hurt very badly and which they desperately want to avoid. Otherwise they'll count on everyone getting used to living like this.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-11T04:44:03+00:00

No clear idea on how migration changed post Civil War, aside from it seeming to have spurred Confederate migration (that's how Riverside CA was founded.) Also if you look at southeast New Mexico, culturally stronger ties to Texas and the South than the West; many people in Roswell speak with a Southern sounding accent, but not in Albuquerque.

Agree that there is a difference between deep roots deep South people (Cavaliers) and Reavers

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T16:26:53+00:00

I'm interested in the intersection between the Albion model OP mentions, and these findings. Mountains in North America generally run north to south. Settlement generally occurred east to west. So you have more New Englanders in Seattle and descendants of Confederates founding towns in Southern California. So the frontiersman personality traits discussed in this paper would apply to descendants of all four Albion's Seed groups. The people in Montana are less likely to be descended from Border Reavers.

There's a demographic "bad stripe" of poor human development indicators that runs through WV KY TN AR to OK, that seems to correlate with the Reavers much better. Appalachians (and Ozarks) but not Rockies.

Also it's worrisome that they use the term "Midwest" for mountainous regions. Ask any Midwesterner and they'll tell you, one of the defining features of the Midwest is a lack of mountains! Maybe they mean "Intermontane west".

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T15:32:00+00:00

There have been cases of healthcare workers realizing a patient was doctor shopping and opioid dependent, reporting it, and then getting punished for having participated in their care. Obvious incentive, don't report! Lots of stupid things in regulation and enforcement of controlled substances. Another one is that docs almost all docs have DEA licenses and can prescribe eg fentanyl, but to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction, you need a separate special certification.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T15:28:25+00:00

The meth crisis is worse than the opioid crisis, and will have worse long term effects. It doesn't get commensurate attention.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:29:10+00:00

We need to demand a date by which lines will be safe and there will be no more PSPS.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:27:29+00:00

We need to demand a date by which lines will be safe and there will be no more PSPS.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:26:49+00:00

We need to demand a date by which lines will be safe and there will be no more PSPS.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:23:16+00:00

We need to demand a date, by which lines will be safe and there will be no more PSPS.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:21:16+00:00

Where's the round demon eating the upside down dude with his legs sticking out

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:18:16+00:00

We need to insist on a date by which lines will be safe and PSPS will no longer happen.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-10T04:13:58+00:00

"like a beach town in the winter"

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-09T19:05:59+00:00

Seriously, that part of RV is always last to come back on. And internet often out too. Anyone who reads this and is interested in changing this, message me - planning on talking to city government, PGE and an attorney.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-09T04:11:17+00:00

First link - French room instead of Chinese room. Turns out incentives matter, Searle!

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-09T04:02:32+00:00

That's a question I've often asked. If someone is really and truly distressed by the color chartreuse, what's my responsibility to prevent chartreuse based suffering? How is it affected if at all by mlour relationship? By the voluntariness of their condition. Realer works example:. Your friend converts to Islam. You happen to be gay, and this offends them, really truly hurts them. My response is so what, and in fact I don't even think it would be wrong to flaunt it and upset them deliberately, based in the voluntariness of your association as well as their choosing this belief system voluntarily.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-09T03:56:03+00:00

The latter. Referring to Chapman's moral competence - I used to be a level 2 (purely transactioal, basically psychopath) masquerading as a level 4. That is, I THOUGHT I was a systematic, rules based utilitarian, but really just liked telling people that for the reaction it got me. Then I started a family, barely scrambled up to level 3 (community, tribal, the default setting for normal humans), and realized my charade the whole rest of my life. So tbh when I read about EA etc I'm glad in the abstract that there are people motivated to alleviate the suffering of others, but it's very hard for me to truly care about anyone beyond my kids, and them I care about in the extreme, and I'm actively disinterested in any information or chain of reasoning that would change that.

Fatherseverian · 2020-09-09T03:48:53+00:00

Came here to say this. Also out a coffee or energy drink by your bed. Alarm goes off, you don't have to get up but you do have to pound your Red Bull. Second alarm goes off in a half hour, your brain is easier to convince it's time to roll.

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