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Lahaina: A Failure of Blue Land Use Policy
The Lahaina inferno has drawn out the conspiracy theorists, touting everything from laser rays to artificial fuels. Add in the Gaea cult assigning it to global warming. The truth is likely even more tragic because prosaic. It’s the foreseeable consequence of readily observable folly, lacking only the right conditions to set things in motion. This photo (cribbed from the AP) tells the tale: