Are the LA fires a metaphor, and warning, for what we are doing, and have done to our planet? Certainly, they also speak to local incompetence, hubris, and simple mismanagement, sometimes sincere, often tight-fisted. Witness Clavin's tale of an underground mine fire in Centralia, Pa., a small town that once tried to put out a dangerous conflagration using public money, engineering "genius," and political posturing. That was in 1962. The fire is still going.
Incompetence spreads faster than wild fires
Burns me up!
Are the LA fires a metaphor, and warning, for what we are doing, and have done to our planet? Certainly, they also speak to local incompetence, hubris, and simple mismanagement, sometimes sincere, often tight-fisted. Witness Clavin's tale of an underground mine fire in Centralia, Pa., a small town that once tried to put out a dangerous conflagration using public money, engineering "genius," and political posturing. That was in 1962. The fire is still going.
Makes me hot under the collar.