To not want to hear any more about the Californian fires

[Viviennemary]

For a start I do feel a lot of sympathy for folk who have lost everything in those fires. But what is the point of telling us night after night about the devastation these fires are causing, we can't do anything about it nobody can. And America is a rich country and can afford to rebuild. Unlike Gaza where folk have been left with nothing, and hardly had much in the first place.

Some Green party-controlled councils were against controlled burn offs. Mostly though common sense has prevailed.

I doubt it's unprecedented. 250k years ago something like 90% of human DNA was wiped out. I suspect that had something to do with climate change. And people forget that we are in an interglacial period and an ice age is overdue. Warming, which melts the poles, is the precurser of an ice age.

There is no right not to be offended. But I thought indigenous peoples was the preferred term?

This is precisely why I don't watch or listen to news any more. I completely abandoned any form of news in 2020 when the BBC kept going on about corrrrrrronavirus, and I've never looked back. I take the view that if there is something really, really important happening in the world, I'll find out about it one way or another. I will not have my telescreen television spoonfeeding me doom and gloom, to satisfy some billionaire's narrative.

Switch off the news, it's bad for your health. Probably best to switch off social media as well, including and perhaps especially Mumsnet.

It's a disaster. Just switch off the news if you dgaf

bbc should cover disaster but some of the Americans they had on were terrible. One bemoaned the fact that his favourite seafood restaurant was gone. Another listed ALL the famous names who had lost their homes So insensitive

That they know of.

That seafood restaurant is one of many. It's people's livelihoods.

Yes, you are right.

They aren’t squabbling? It’s because of western interference.

Yep, and our hominid ancestors also went through a population bottleneck in the Pleistocene caused by climate change that reduced populations from 100,000 to 1,000.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487

This isn't a comfort.

I'm not the only one using the term 'unprecedented' (see a snapshot below). If 'many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years' and the above is the baseline, we are still fu**ed as a civilisation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30729-2

https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

Don't even TRY to backpedal. I know what you said. You know what you said. EVERYone knows what you said. At least own it.

You said 'the media only cares when it's white people affected,' even though only 37% of L.A. is white. An ignorant, clueless, ill-informed remark, from someone who clearly knows NOTHING about that part of the world.

You made a gaffe and made yourself look daft. No getting away from that I'm afraid @ticktickticktickBOOM

As I said, at least own it, and admit you are wrong. You may be able to save a shred of dignity at least! You're embarrassing yourself with your childish LOL-ing emoji and denials of the giant gaffe you have made!

No, you are wrong. Every year there are controlled burnoffs and massive fire breaks put in. Some years the weather is not conducive to safe burning and less is done than was planned.

You keep acting as if a country that has being managing forest fires for centuries has no idea how to prepare for them. Sometimes the combination of weather, winds, and other forces - as per Los Angeles now - overwhelms man's ability to handle them and all that can be done it to minimise the damage to life, and if possible property, and to try to contain them.

Even if this is true, it just goes to prove why sacred land shouldn’t be over built on by settlers.

I hate whataboutery especially when Gaza is involved. What about the hostages? Haven't heard much about them lately, eh?

Obviously the fires are big news, areas of a big city are going up in flames due to the climate crisis.

Climate change denier has entered the chat.

Even if this is true... You seem to have strong opinions about things you know sweet fuck all about.

Ok expert 🤣

Netanyahu is not interested in freeing the hostages. He's just interested in obliterating the Gazan's off the face of the earth, be they women, children, babies, medics or journalists.

Maybe experience living through a few catastrophic megablazes and get back to me.

What has this got to do with fires in LA?

LegoBingo ·
"What has this got to do with fires in LA?"

Just commenting on this LegoBingo

Cattyisbatty · Today 15:13

"I hate whataboutery especially when Gaza is involved. What about the hostages? Haven't heard much about them lately, eh?"

Oh right sorry that makes sense now