It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Because We Stopped Logging
Audio: A brief recap of what is really causing catastrophic wildfires. For over a century we have gotten better and better at suppressing natural wildfires. Then over the past 40 years, we have regulated California’s timber harvesting industry almost out of existence. California’s forests are now so overgrown that no fires are natural anymore. They are catastrophic because the fuel is made of trees that are dried out from overcrowding. Climate change is secondary. Edward Ring with host Jon Slavet on the State of Gold podcast.
Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness, and a regular contributor to the California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Forbes, and other media outlets.
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