Harrison Ford on Biodiversity

See https://eowilsonfoundation.org/. It's not incompatible with creating cities that aren't semipermanent fire hazards, you know. See Juan Brown on The Problems With Dropping Fire Retardant in Hot Wind. 

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See https://www.waterstories.com/ and this post I made a year ago: Water Stories. 

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WSJ's take. Karla Nemeth, Director of the CA Department of Water Resources (whose website seems to be down) says that you cannot expect to contain a fire like this using local fire hydrants.


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Part of the problem is that when big buildings with sprinkler systems burn down the sprinklers keep going!


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The $30M Super Scooper

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See Janet Axelrud on Intensionality and Social Reality.

The Lookout on the new risk to Crestwood Park and Brentwood


Zeke is going to be on CNN tomorrow around 11:45am Pacific Time talking about how hard it is to mitigate against fires like this. See https://the-lookout.org/.

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