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Here to remind everybody that the LA Times is one of the publications that wouldn't let their editorial board endorse Harris because its billionaire owner wanted to cozy up to Trump.
Get your news from another source.
Who owns the LA Times?
Wikipedia says Patrick Soon-Shiong.
why won't anybody listen?
You're getting downvoted by people who didn't watch the video, lol. I saw it when it was posted because the YouTube algorithm knows me way too well, it's kinda terrifying actually.
Growing up in the 90s, my father worked for the Florida Division of Forestry, and control burns were just a thing I heard about at the dinner table, sometimes when getting smoked out on the playground I'd ask him if it was a prescribed burn or a wildfire. So was him being asked to help every few years when California was on fire again.
I was astonished to find out as an adult that prescribed burns weren't as widespread as they seemed, and this video does a pretty good job of explaining some of why that is. And yes, it's partly racism - control burns were a part of indigenous forest management and part of the racist maligning of indigenous practices as non-scientific and backwards. In the modern era, there's also elements of entrenched thinking on the part of forestry services, and money issues (governments, in general, don't like paying for preventative measures, they prefer paying more after something awful has occurred), and NIMBYs not wanting to be inconvenienced.
I do think the framing unfairly maligns Smokey Bear as a symbol though, in the past 30-ish years he's been more about regular citizens being responsible with fire, and responsible forest management.
One of the most destructive firestorm in history:
kills 5
burns 2
000 buildings