{"id":178919,"date":"2018-11-11T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178919"},"modified":"2018-11-15T05:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:31:32","slug":"california-fires-the-direct-result-of-shortsighted-environmentalist-policies-that-prohibit-forest-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178919","title":{"rendered":"California fires the direct result of shortsighted environmentalist policies that prohibit forest management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mike Adams &#8212; Natural News Nov 10, 2018<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/California-fires-Malibu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/California-fires-Malibu.jpg\" alt=\"California fires Malibu\" width=\"540\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/California-fires-Malibu.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/California-fires-Malibu-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Actions have consequences, and bad actions often have bad consequences. In much the same way that liberal policies have burned Venezuela\u2019s economy to the ground, California environmentalist policies have unleashed a catastrophic fire that has so far claimed the lives of 11 people and countless animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is what liberal policies always lead to Destruction, pain, suffering and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We pray for those who are suffering through this catastrophe, but above all, we pray that the people of California might wake up and realize <strong>this disaster is self-inflicted and can be prevented<\/strong>. But that can only happen if dangerous liberal policies that promote these catastrophes are finally stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Years ago, the California government began interfering with local efforts to bulldoze the deadwood out of forests as part of a forest management plan to reduce fire risk. This was all done, of course, under the banner of \u201cenvironmentalism,\u201d usually with emotional pleas to \u201csave the wildlife\u201d by leaving all the forests alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Year after year, the deadwood built up. It was only a matter of time, of course, before a fire would be ignited by lightning (Mother Nature\u2019s natural fire starter). Fueled by the tremendous underbrush that was no longer being cleaned out of the forests, the fires erupted with catastrophic ferocity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cExtreme environmentalists have shut down public access. They talk about habitat, and yet they are willing to burn it up,\u201d warned Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/environmentalists-partially-to-blame-for-cas-wildfires-interior-chief-says\/22709500\">an interview with KCRA<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. \u201cThis has nothing to do with climate change. This has to do with active forest management,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Liberals, you see, don\u2019t believe in forest management. They don\u2019t want firebreaks to be maintained, and they don\u2019t want fire access roads to \u201cdisrupt\u201d forest ecology. So in their effort to prevent humans from having any impact at all on forests, they prevent commonsense management activities from taking place that would help prevent forest fires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is how liberals think: They demand authoritarian control so they can create a liberal utopia, but when their ideas are implemented, they deliver absolute Hell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThere is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,\u201d tweeted President Trump. And he\u2019s right. \u201cBillions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1061168803218948096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Liberals, of course, blame \u201cclimate change\u201d instead of their own disastrous policies. As <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-10\/trump-threatens-cut-wildfire-funding-unless-cali-ends-gross-mismanagement-forests\">Zero Hedge explains<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>As University of Washington Climate Scientist Cliff Mass pointed out in an analysis of the factors contributing to California\u2019s wildfires, climate change isn\u2019t driving climate change; rather, poor land management policies and population growth in once-rural areas have been by far the biggest contributors. According to one recent study cited by Mass, the risk of fire increased in once-rural areas as populations increased, placing buildings, plants, vehicles and other ignition sources in fire-prone areas that were once sparsely populated.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liberals always create their own Hell\u2026 the problem is they want to take the rest of us with them<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">None of us should be surprised that the insane policies of liberals always lead to these people creating their own Hell. Every city, state and nation run by Leftists has either already plummeted into collapse or is on its way there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Liberal ideas are bad ideas.<\/strong> They don\u2019t work. They\u2019re rooted in insanity, emotion or irrationality rather than cause and effect. Liberals think \u201cwishing\u201d is reality, which is exactly why they think there are 67 genders\u2026 or 85\u2026 or whatever the number has expanded to this week. In exactly the same way that liberals ignore biological reality and push \u201cgender identity\u201d nonsense, they also ignore forest management reality and pretend that forests won\u2019t burn up if humans don\u2019t touch them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It makes me wonder why all the liberals in California don\u2019t simply announce today that they \u201cself-identify\u201d as people living in an area where there are no fires. Wouldn\u2019t that make the fires go away, according to liberal logic? Since liberals believe reality is completely subjective, why can\u2019t they simply wish away fires, earthquakes, floods and droughts? (Answer: Because good intentions don\u2019t count. What matters is cause and effect.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Instead of facing reality and solving problems with practical, real-world solutions, <strong>liberals blame imaginary causes<\/strong> for all the disasters they unleash. The current target to take the blame for all natural disasters is \u201cclimate change\u201d \u2014 a work of complete fiction dredged up by liberals desperate to blame California\u2019s atrociously bad water management, forest management and topsoil management policies on the petroleum industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Before long, California will have to find another scapegoat to blame for its astonishingly dangerous debt spending and public pension policies, all of which will drive the state into financial bankruptcy and destitution. If you think the streets of San Francisco are bad now, just wait until the state suffers the financial collapse that\u2019s sure to break. Mass homelessness, disease and crime will make cities like Los Angeles uninhabitable by civilized people. (See <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/CaliforniaCollapse.news\">CaliforniaCollapse.news<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for more coverage.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Quite literally, liberals \u201ctorch\u201d everything they touch. Poof! Economies, ecosystems and entire nations go up in smoke due to leftist policies, all of which are rooted in sheer delusion and bad ideas laced with \u201cgood intentions.\u201d But good intentions don\u2019t count when they\u2019re wrapped in disastrous policy like offering free, unlimited health care to illegal aliens \u2014 another genius California concoction that will cause the state\u2019s fiscal house of cards to collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Delusional thinking does not solve real world problems, which is exactly why liberals must be stripped of all power<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">California liberals are delusional people, and that makes them dangerous to the rest of us. Sadly, when the liberal mob grows to a sufficient size, they can out-vote the rational people in society. When that happens, their bad ideas ruin the lives of everyone, including the good people who are trying to stop them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If the people of California want to stop living in a Hellhole, they need to stop voting for Democrats. Sadly, it doesn\u2019t look like that\u2019s going to happen any time soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Until that day comes, <strong>the people of California will continue to suffer under their own self-inflicted disasters<\/strong> \u2014 ecological, economic, legislative, fiscal and otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The fires of Malibu you see today are prophetic foreshadows of what\u2019s coming to the entire state if Democrats aren\u2019t stripped of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I pray for all the people of California, including those who are suffering from the inescapable consequences of their own delusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Oh, and it\u2019s not just California, either. The America voters are burning down the entire country by demanding debt spending and entitlement benefits that will lead the entire nation into financial abyss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2018-11-10-self-induced-disaster-california-fires-the-direct-result-of-shortsighted-environmentalist-policies.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalist policies fed California&#8217;s fires <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178923,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178919\/revisions\/178923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}