Los Angeles Inferno as a Symptom of Moonbattery

As mentioned earlier, Los Angeles burning down demonstrates that it is not feasible to live under liberal rule. Allysia Finley lists a few of the reasons.

One is that according to environmental radicalism, humanity ranks last among lifeforms — even below plants:

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones to make power lines fire- and wind-resistant. In the process, crews removed an estimated 182 Braunton’s milkvetch plants, an endangered species.

The utility halted the project as state officials investigated the plant destruction. More than a year later, the California Coastal Commission issued a cease-and-desist order, fined the utility $2 million, and required “mitigation” for the project’s impact on the species.

Progressives will be pleased to hear that since the milkvetch requires wildfires to propagate, it should soon be flourishing.

Enviromoonbattery helps explain the shortage of water to put out the fires:

Smelt protections restrict the amount of water that flows from the state’s north to the south. This has led to billions of gallons of water being flushed out to the Pacific Ocean each year…

Speaking of fish, Mayor Karen “Largemouth” Bass has taken heat for cutting the LAFD budget. However,

In truth, the fire budget didn’t shrink since city leaders last autumn approved a new union contract that boosted pay and benefits by $76 million—about $20,000 per firefighter. Even before this raise, firefighters on average earned about $200,000, plus $90,000 in benefits. Many can retire at 55 with pensions equaling 90% of their final salaries.

DEI-compliant firefighters do not need to meet conventional requirements. Citizens who are incinerated because female firefighters are not strong enough to rescue them get what they deserve, according to LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson.

Los Angeles spent $350 million this year on firefighter pensions and benefits. Much of that would have been better spent on fire prevention, which made up only 5% of the department’s budget.

Money is misallocated to pay moonbats to be lesbians rather than to protect the public from fires.

Then there are the homeless hordes that bureaucrats spend a fortune to grow, combined with the collapse of allegedly racist law & order:

Last year’s Park Fire—the fourth largest in state history—was allegedly ignited by a man with two prior felony convictions who was on parole for a DUI. The Los Angeles Times reported in early 2021 that 24 fires on average were breaking out each day in the city’s homeless encampments. A fire in an encampment shut down an L.A. freeway last November, the second time that had happened in a little over a year.

Looks like a homeless illegal alien authorities allowed to run loose despite having committed a felony might have started the Kenneth Fire. Then again, he says he was just using a blowtorch to smoke marijuana.

Los Angeles may not be rebuilt. Refugees are welcome only if they leave liberal politics behind.

On a tip from Varla.

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