Ignoring sustainability history

If you can't rewrite history to fit your narrative, the Biden alternative is to ignore (or maybe he just forgot) history. Let's look at the history of 'forest fire' acreage loss in the United States. And remember, even lefty California Governor Newsom claims that more than 90% of such fires are caused by the accidental or criminal hand of man, not La Nina, not 'global warming.'

And, yes, the Washington Post is a willing dupe in this deception.

The actual history pretty clearly shows that before industrialization and expansive populating of the western hemisphere, i.e., before the eighteenth century, the average annual acreage burning in the pre-United States was about 140 million acres, more than ten times as much as any time in the most recent sixty years.

The value of the land has also increased. Note that the cited Times article -- a forest fire starting every three minutes for the entirety of 1937, claimed the 'loss' at about a dollar an acre. And much of that 'damage' can be recouped when the forest grows back. Forest fires have long been a natural method Mother Nature used to renew the earth. But just as there is more damage from hurricanes due primarily to higher seashore property values, the damage from forest fires is much higher, as the land is often populated, with businesses and homes. And that is why fires have declined to such a great deal: Because it is in everyone's interest to reduce the impact of fires. This means that man sustains Mother Nature.

More important, the first sign of absolute tyranny is when the tyrants revise or ignore history so as to serve their purposes. And all the time they claim that they are doing us a favor, protecting us. As the rabbi's prayer from Fiddler on the Roof goes, "God, please bless and keep the tsar...far away from us."