There’s been a lot of talk about what’s causing the fires out west. Among the (not mutually exclusive) possible causes I’ve heard most often are (1) global warming, (2) poor forest management come home to roost, and (3) ideological motivations (e.g., Antifa trying to cause chaos on Trump’s watch). <\/p>\n
Let alone the fact that wildfires have been part of the natural cycle out there since well before humans arrived. <\/p>\n
But one thing has been confirmed. Arsonists are at least partly responsible. According to this article<\/a>, some of the arsonists had weird, personal reasons unrelated to Trump or partisan politics. <\/p>\n These days, everything has to be partisan — including fires. In order to push the idea that the fires are from global warming, some on the left are dismissing claims about poor forest management and arson.<\/p>\n It’s very sad that we can’t believe the authorities on such basic matters of governance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s been a lot of talk about what’s causing the fires out west. Among the (not mutually exclusive) possible causes I’ve heard most often are (1) global warming, (2) poor forest management come home to roost, and (3) ideological motivations (e.g., Antifa trying to cause chaos on Trump’s watch). Let alone the fact that wildfires … Continue reading “It’s not always a conspiracy, and it’s not always about Trump, but we seem doomed to talk that way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}