Blaming officials for not warning of the dangers of wildfires soon enough (eg Hawaii) simply shows the world is still in dangerous denial.
The idea that this is a crisis that can be managed, orchestrated or minimised is mad beyond words.
Humans have ignored this in-full-view, cataclysmic, potentially annihilating phenomenon for decades.
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