Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Climate Change and fires

[James Glickman (james.glickman]

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> On Jan 25, 2025, at 1:48 PM, Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] 
> cohousing-solutions.com> wrote:
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> As a Californian, I disagree that our state government has failed us (see Ty 
> Albrights previous post). We have made huge strides in both addressing the 
> impacts of climate change and how we work with fire, which has always been a 
> natural phenomenon in the west but which is having much higher impact as 
> climate change creates more extreme weather events.
> 
> Yes, Santa Ana winds have existed here for centuries, if not millennium. But 
> the January 2025 Santa Ana Winds were record breaking and on top of a nine 
> month drought.
> 
> Almost all of the forestland in California is owned and managed by the 
> federal government, NOT the state of California.
> 
> I have no doubt that California will continue to learn much from these tragic 
> fires and incorporate that learning into how we deal with climate change in 
> the future. I am very very concerned that the Trump administration is quickly 
> destroying our country’s already behind-the-eight-ball efforts to work with 
> climate change. If you don’t believe in it, you certainly are not going to 
> help your society plan for the inevitable. I am very concerned about what the 
> Trump Administration will do with regard to “managing” the federal lands 
> across the West.
> 
> In my community, in my rural country, citizens have made huge efforts over 
> the last 5 years to reduce fuels around homes, thin forest for better long 
> term health, introduce proscribed burning, and continually research what 
> works and how best to address our changing weather. We are not waiting for 
> the government, but the scale that this work is needed can only happen with 
> government support. I am so very glad I live in a state that recognizes 
> climate change and is doing what it can to plan for that reality.
> 
> Katie
> Kathryn McCamant , President
> CoHousing Solutions
> www.cohousing-solutions.com<http://www.cohousing-solutions.com>
> 916.798.4755
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