{"id":337,"date":"2025-01-15T08:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/what-is-fueling-the-l-a-fires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:14:34","slug":"what-is-fueling-the-l-a-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/what-is-fueling-the-l-a-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Fueling the L. A. Fires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The obvious answer in terms of tinder-dry flammable materials, the Santa Ana winds, etc. does not cut deep enough. Ideologically, <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/earth-day-2024?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\">nature idolatry<\/a> plays a major role in the ferocity, force, and human impact of the L. A. fires.&#0160; Their source is in radical environmentalism. Radical environmentalism, as opposed to a wise stewardship of nature, is an anti-humanism. This species of wokery issues in extreme misanthropy.&#0160; By radical environmentalism I mean positions like that of David Foreman, founder of Earth First.&#0160; His extremism is displayed in the following quotations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cOur environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We\u2019re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cPhasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cHumanity is the cancer of nature.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today\u201d and, \u201cWe humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe optimum human population of earth is zero.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This AI-generated list may be verified at AZ Quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c950b9200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quote-the-optimum-human-population-of-earth-is-zero-david-foreman-78-94-43\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c950b9200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c950b9200c-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Quote-the-optimum-human-population-of-earth-is-zero-david-foreman-78-94-43\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Now not every environmentalist on the Left embraces the late Foreman&#39;s absurdities. But the mitigated forms of leftist environmentalism are also objectionable.&#0160; Here is a paradox worth thinking about. A sane environmentalism cannot be anti-human. It must promote human flourishing. But this will require various violent interventions in nature including drilling, mining, farming, dam-building, tunneling, road-building, and the like.&#0160; These are anti-environmental actions.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To refuse to manage nature for the sake of human flourishing by engaging in these anti-environmental actions will lead, as it has in the case of the California conflagration, to a worse environmental outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">That is the paradox. A sound environmentalism must be in some measure anti-environmental.&#0160; But a paradox is not a contradiction, and this is one that must be accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">So, even apart from arson, the L. A. inferno is in large part man-made by the likes of Governor Hair-Style and Mayor Dumbass. (Those choice epithets courtesy of Kurt Schlichter.) Wildfires there will always be. Their benighted policies, however,&#0160; have made things worse than they had to be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious answer in terms of tinder-dry flammable materials, the Santa Ana winds, etc. does not cut deep enough. Ideologically, nature idolatry plays a major role in the ferocity, force, and human impact of the L. A. fires.&#0160; Their source is in radical environmentalism. Radical environmentalism, as opposed to a wise stewardship of nature, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/what-is-fueling-the-l-a-fires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Fueling the L. A. Fires?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,189,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentalism","category-idolatry","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}