Environmental Extremism Responsible For California Wildfires

September 3, 2009 · Filed Under Environment

Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans to burn away highly flammable brush at the edge of L.A. to prevent raging forest fires.

After battling environmental groups in the courts the U.S. Forest Service finally obtained a permit to do a controlled burn on more than 1,700 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Due to pressure from liberal groups the Feds dragged their feet and only cleared a 193 acres before the wildfires sparked.

Even though this latest blaze has burned more than 5 dozen homes and killed two firefighters, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity had this to say (emphasis mine):

iologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.

Notice the enviro-kooks always look out for everything except human beings. It doesn’t matter how many people or homes burn as long as the “native species” are not harmed.

People in California need to wake the hell up and take their state back from the environmental Marxists and loony progressives. Until they do, California will continue falling apart.

-Chris Jones

(hat tip Mere Rhetoric)