Time Travelling [Sarah's Scribbles]
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Maybe if we have cheaper gas, burn more oil, buy even more stuff, and concentrate on having a strong economy, things will get better?
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Surely we can capitalism our way out of this mess that capitalism created!
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"So it worked! Now I return to 1025 and destroy all the knowledge of this time machine."
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I’ll be honest even as someone who studies the climate pretty extensively I didn’t think it would be this bad yet.
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We’re just speed running enshitification.
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coz thats where the money is /I would s, but omg
dammit speed running enshittification is obvious profit. I hate your obvious rightness.
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The end of the world
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California has wildfires every other year, so that's not that much of a surprise to me.
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Not in January and not that destroy entire neighborhoods in urban areas. This is unlike any historical fire in multiple ways.
I understand if you just casually read the news from afar this might seem normal but trust me it isn’t.
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Isn't it all the old grandfathered-in, explicitly not fire safe areas that are burning? The ones that you aren't allowed to build new anymore because they aren't up to fire code? Ones that inspectors have repeatedly stated "hey this is definitely going to burn down"?
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We're the cautionary future that was too horrible to contemplate actually happening.
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Yes, absolutely. That’s what I was alluding to elsewhere when I said some areas are safer and we need to update our fire codes as Australia has.
But this presents a monumental challenge. California is already in a housing shortage, so we can’t just abandon all the housing that is in risky areas or is substandard. We need to thoughtfully update building regulations so that we can more quickly build up dense housing stock in more fire safe areas while also improving the fire safety of those buildings.
Better forest management can also help but given the extremity of the fire conditions we’ve seen in recent years this won’t be enough on its own.
