These federal, state, and local strategies to protect entitled property owners who choose to live in the middle of brush is absurd.https://twitter.com/journowes/status/904040385172742144 …
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This area, where people build homes in the middle of a carpet bomb, is racially and economically segregated from the rest of LA, of course.
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Imagine being less scared of chaparral as neighbors than black folks as neighbors.pic.twitter.com/WQkqQOwIgi
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There's an entire system that protects homeowners. The city allows them permits to build in the middle of chaparral that inevitably burns.
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Insurance companies sell policies in this area to people who know they live in the middle of a mountain where there are fires every summer.
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The city fire department, which pays prisoners $1 a day to fight these fires, tries to suppress fires summer after summer. It doesn't work.
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Chaparral, also known as brush, evolved to survive fires. Some sprout underground; others need fire to germinate. Fires here are inevitable.
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The fire department puts out small fires all summer, making fuel from the native chaparral build up over the years. It's a powder keg.
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Instead of allowing small fires to naturally burn as they have forever, the state supports putting them out to protect homeowners, too.
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FEMA even gives federal grants to fight these fires. If a home burns, insurance company pays. Homeowner rebuilds. Cycle starts over again.
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This is a new phenomenon. Natives never built in areas where flora evolved to germinate during fire. Original peoples here accepted reality.
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Even up to 100 years ago, the city/state let these fires burn naturally. Now, people live in the chaparral.https://twitter.com/arielsabrinaa/status/904148424727044096 …
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Climate change is real, but it's not the cause of these fires. They're the result of the state's penchant for protecting the wealthy.
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