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As Los Angeles fires rage, states battle over effort to make oil and gas industry accountable for climate change harms. (www.thenewlede.org)
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As fires rage through southern California, the costs of extreme weather events linked to climate change are forecast to keep climbing – adding fuel to growing efforts by some US states to make the oil and gas industry liable for helping foot the bill despite looming legal challenges.

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

On a level of discussion between “the earth is flat” to “you can pollute as long as you pay for it”, we’re still very far from stopping the madness.

[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 13 hours ago

Putting out every little forest fire in an eco system where natural fires were commonplace is the cause of these humongous fires we can't put out.

Climate change isn't the main culprit here.

"[...] attempting to suppress all wildfires necessarily means that fires will burn with more severe and less diverse ecological impacts, with burned area increasing at faster rates than expected from fuel accumulation or climate change. Over a human lifespan, the modeled impacts of the suppression bias exceed those from fuel accumulation or climate change alone, suggesting that suppression may exert a significant and underappreciated influence on patterns of fire globally"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46702-0