Wild Fire is a serious issue

 Wild Fire is a serious issue and should not be relegated to the cesspool of political partisanship that so hampers decision-making in this country.  There is a fire.  Get people out of the way.  Put the damn thing out.  Rebuild.  Move on to the next problem.  Get the heck out of the habit of using today's tragedy to prove that it, whatever it is at the moment, is not my fault and it is the fault of "the other."  The climate is changing.  Wild Fire is a greater menace than it used to be.  Quit defending old ideas and start finding new solutions.  Granted, there has to be an analysis of what went wrong and, where appropriate, corrective action taken, but quit the political jabber and get on with the real work that needs to be done.  Political retribution is NOT as important as the future of humanity.

If I were influential, I would attempt to convince the populace that "it," whatever it happens to be, at the moment, is our responsibility, not the responsibility of our leaders,  I am far more interested in finding a way to provide enough fresh water to support humanity than I am in the political color of any given politician's political slogans.  I drive into town across a bridge that spans a small river dumping huge amounts of fresh water into the ocean.  Were I to drive north or south on the same road, I would cross hundreds of other large and small waterways doing precisely the same thing.  Diverting that water will cause major changes, some of which will require changes in the way we and other life forms continue to exist.  Making those decisions is where the real work lies and it requires each of us to participate because it is going to affect all us no matter which side of whatever argument we are on.

Were I involved in decision-making, I would advocate capturing and distributing more fresh water even as I understood that it would adversely impact other life forms.  I think it naive, or worse, to believe that we can select which life forms we favor and which we do not.  We are stuck with humans as being our major concern and responsibility.  Once we get our own house in order, here in this country, we will need to find ways to help the rest of the world do precisely the same thing on a very wide variety of fronts.  It is a huge task and it requires that you and I get out mojo back, not continue to piss on each other.