In 2018, even wildfire is political
by Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump took to Twitter to blame bad forest management. California Gov. Jerry Brown pointed to climate change.
Their arguments about the cause of disastrous wildfires roaring across the state have turned a California catastrophe into the latest political cudgel in the ongoing slugfest between Washington and Sacramento.
Both leaders are in a sense promoting their political agendas. In Trump's case, that is an attack on environmental regulations. In Brown's, it is a call to arms to slow global warming.
But as is often with political rhetoric, reality is far more complicated.
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