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Richard Epstein considers all the ways California policymakers are compounding the damage from the state’s wildfires — from a misplaced emphasis on global warming to new regulations that will damage the market for home insurance.
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“In the last two years … global temperatures went down by 1°F.”
“Every one of these fires is begun on public land. None of them have begun on private land.”
every fire started on public land, wow
The incentive to protect one’s property isn’t there.
Meanwhile, private landowners who border on public land would be punished by the law for violating environmental regulations if they took matters into their own hands. (I suspect some do, anyway.)
so true