From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:17:00 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >BTR1701  wrote:   
   >>moviePig  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>. . .   
   >   
   >>>If "plants and critters" are never "prioritized", say goodbye to them.   
   >   
   >>Wherein moviePig explicitly endorses the idea that at least sometimes it's   
   >>appropriate to let people die if it means some rodents might otherwise   
   >>perish.   
   >   
   >While moviePig is being an unsympathetic jerk here, I will comment that   
   >humans should not live surrounded by these forests subject to wildfire   
   >and will expect to be burned out at some point.   
   >   
   >In this case, given that the decision had been made decades ago to allow   
   >this home construction, then there was no choice but to use mechanical   
   >means to smother the fire and not to allow it to smoulder till it became   
   >a threat to human life, despite consequences for conservation. Too late   
   >for that consideration as the presence of human settlement had forever   
   >changed the forest.   
   >   
   >But the town doesn't have to be rebuilt where it is subject to wildfire.   
      
   Not without proper compensation for their property.  The government is   
   refusing to let these people rebuild without providing it.   
      
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