@ai6yr I’ve been pondering that for awhile. When I left San Diego, they were just starting to require better defensive measures for boundary communities – things like wide ice plant perimeters in addition to structural improvements – but that extra land is expensive.
I’m not sure low-density cities built around car travel can afford to defend sprawling fire perimeters, but anything more than modest density is expensive in earthquake country and a lot of people aren’t used to it and balk.
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In response to this post@ai6yr there’s just this achingly-hard collective action problem here, too, where we really need to reconsider everything we do from the standpoint of reducing emissions but politically even if Californians cut way back it won’t be enough to fix the problem, and the national political situation means it’ll be will likely be misused in attacks similar to what we’ve seen for years over water use reduction.
@acdha Absolutely. It's the "tragedy of the commons" problem, but the problem is it's the planet.
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