Opinion: California’s misguided climate change priorities
In short, at the very time that California’s war on fossil fuels has made keeping the lights on more expensive and less dependable, its failure to have an effective wildfire mitigation policy threatens to neutralize the benefits of its costly war on carbon.
These priorities are lopsided. California has experienced 18 of its 20 largest wildfires since 2000. These wildfires generate tons of carbon emissions, threaten lives and homes, increase homeowners’ insurance premiums, and dangerously emit small particulates that cause heart attacks, pre-term births, lung cancer, and asthma attacks.
Here’s what California government should be doing on an urgent basis if it is really concerned about greenhouse gases.
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