Like everything else related to climate change, we do not HAVE TO be “headed toward a world in which many of us will have to breathe in the smoke from distant wildfires more often.”

It’s money and the reluctance to tax people who have too damn much of it that makes us unable to clear out underbrush, create fire breaks, and do controlled burns. Money piled up in giant hoards, Smoag the dragon and his kin nesting upon it.