Trump is in Paradise, CA, walking a neighborhood incinerated by wildfires. Trees with alligator skin from burn marks. Only a few metal items recognizable in rubble - crumpled Dish TV satellites and washers, steel beams.
He’s listening to Mayor Judy Jones and FEMA’s Brock Long.
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“We’ve got to take care of the floors. The floors of the forest,” Trump said in Paradise, CA.
Other countries do it differently—president of Finland said they spend a lot of time “on raking and cleaning. They don’t have any problem and when it is, it’s a very small problem.”
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I grew up in Finland. a) it rains all year round. b) we have a lengthy and cold winter. c) Finland is a sparsely populated country with just over 5mil ppl, with land size ~3/4 of CA and most of it forests and lakes. d) no friggin body is raking the forests.
Well, not so. About 25% of California is deserts. CA has wonderfully diverse geography which is why we love our state so much.
And I did not only grow up in Finland, I still live here and am working on forest sector, and one of my duties is to produce a web magazine of forest sector in English.
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Great write up! Thanks for sharing. I miss the Finnish forest, particularly in the fall. Berry picking, mushrooming...
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This is tweet belongs in the Darwin file. Finland climate to Califailure no comparisons. Been there. Was beautiful. I didn’t see any gnomes.
