Colorado wildfire destroys between 80 and 100 homes

Couldn’t have seen THAT coming. Building a subdivision full of wooden houses in a scrubby dry pine forest. Glad no one got hurt, but I Hope these people see their premiums triple so mine don’t have to.

@alkaline state: We should be so lucky. I don’t think that hope will come to pass.

@alkaline state: We should be so lucky. I don’t think that hope will come to pass.

Drought and heat are here to stay, so the fires continue. The US, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Australia become polluted deserts. China has a continent-sized irrigation and land reclamation plan, and Russia has melting Siberian tundra to open land for agriculture, livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and timber. Therefore, China and Russia will dominate food production and strongly influence those nations that want to eat by 2025. The US and others will spend the next 12 years fighting increasingly dangerous fires and making accomodations to the new powers that control global food production.

Drought is what de-stabilised Syria. Too many farmers and their kids moving to the city. Not enough for them to do.

As someone who comes from an arid, timbered area of the US West, I feel no pity for the people who lost their homes. We spend over one billion dollars a year fighting wildfires, most of which is spent defending houses built in areas that are SUPPOSED to burn. Not to mentioned the dozens of 18 and 19 year olds who have lost their lives protecting the houses of wealthy retirees from California.

If you build a house in the woods, you need to pay extra to protect it from fire. The same goes for people who decide to build their dream home on the banks of a river.