@[email protected] Well put. Panic only happens when white people are involved
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@ncoca I don't believe anyone will wake up. That would mean they are "woke" which is obviously bad. Also this fire was clearly started by homeless people and the problem with controlling it is DEI.
@[email protected] It does matter, locally. Now that celebrities followed by the entire world have been affected, maybe we'll be able to tackle Global Warming and Climate Change internationally.
Because so many Americans think they are the center of the universe. And even within the US, many people don't look over their fences, especially if has to do with someone from a different political tribe. The LA Fires are dismissed by many on the political right because it is happening in California. I know many people back home (from rural America) who talk about California as if it is a foreign country.
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I've had a theory for a while now that people on the right in the US will not actively talk about climate change until something catastrophic and irreversible happens to major city in a red state. That way it can't be dismissed as something else. My money is on Miami, Florida but it could also be a city in Texas (not Austin). And even then, it won't be talked about directly because it is such a deep part of the culture wars.
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@[email protected] But will it? The massive flooding far inland due to a freak Hurricane #Helene in North Carolina didn't seem to have much of an impact, despite clear links to climate change. Nor the Texas grid crisis from a few years ago.
Grew up partly in Kansas myself so certainly understand the challenge in red America.
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Right? Houston has been repeatedly flooded, and 10 years ago there was a made-for-TV movie about that city getting hit by a tornado swarm, which is plausible.