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‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/15/criminally-reckless-la-wildfires-urban-sprawl?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Just like when cities build homes on floodplains and then those homes are destroyed when the rivers overflow their banks.
Its all about greed and the removal of safety protocols.
@tabernac Exactly. What you describe happened in the south of the Netherlands (nineties), expensive houses build too close to the river. Flood came, precious wooden floors ruined, tears.
Here in Chile: expensive appartement high rises build on the edge of the coastline, next to protected dunes. Heavy rainfall came past year, the natural capacity to absorb that water was disturbed because of all that development , foundations were damaged when sand just flushed away. Owners angry.
They all knew what they were doing, big money, backhanders and weak public offices paved the way, literally. Lots of schadenfreude I can tell you that.
It's not like the land developers and city counselors are gonna buy those houses...
Oy vey...when did we give up? Or was it always like this?
@tabernac I don't know, I wasn't always around 
. Most of today's problems stem from ignoring deliberately early warnings (70's-80's) combined with the belief that "we were right because we won the cold war". Just my 2p