Politician Says Hamburgers Cause Wildfires, Wants Mandatory Vegan Options

As the old saying goes … you can’t fix stupid.

Councilman Paul Koretz says he wishes people understood the connection between eating a hamburger and destructive wildfires. He’s proposing requiring vegan restaurants at LAX, movie theaters and other city-owned venues. @KFIAM640 pic.twitter.com/ZV4QW4Cswy

— mollenbeck (@amollenbeckKFI) December 5, 2018

Mollenbeck reports:

Councilman Paul Koretz introduced a motion referencing a number of studies that point to the negative impacts the meat and dairy industry has on the environment, including a University of Oxford study that found if more people in the United States adopted plant-based eating it could cut greenhouse- gas emissions from food sources by 70 percent.

“I want to make it easier for us to do better around the city, as well as provide more options for people who are already following a plant-based diet,” Koretz said during a news conference at City Hall.

I’ll debate the stupidity of the ‘global warming’ nonsense and veganism another time.

Climate change isn’t why wildfires are worse, it’s human dumbassery on managing the forests. Those of us from wildfire country have known this for decades. The climate fear-mongers know this too. They just piggy-back on that fact to say ‘well, climate change made it worse too!’ No, no it didn’t.

This forester points out poor management has led to these big fires.

So does this one.

This climate scientist is even saying it.

This wildfire expert from Auburn University dispells the climate change cause narrative.

Then there’s this:

“A human-driven decline in global burned area” was the title of a study published in Science last June and authored by climate scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Columbia University, the Imperial College London, and elsewhere.

Now, just so we are clear, humans are responsible for much of the wildfire damage. We don’t clear the ‘kindling’ anymore, we move to wildfire-prone areas and aren’t as careful as we should be, and we also start them intentionally sometimes.

Exit question: remember when CA Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bipartisan wildfire bill a couple of years ago?