Environmentalists are so stupid, and now they are being bitten in the ass. They have been fighting prescribed burns forever. That is stupid. They have been fighting logging forever. That is stupid. Wee need to have forests that are of manageable size, and configured such that any fire that starts cannot get too big.

All of us who have been helping to prevent forest fires, just to suck up to Smokey the Bear just saved all the trees for the big forest fire. Our government needs people who can make policy based on long term considerations. Not the quick fixes that get people quick votes. It is the voter's fault as much as the politicians. We need environmental lobbyists that know how to think in the long run, and not just to have stuff that looks good in their fund-raising literature. When people learn how to talk about long term goals we will have a better and stronger country.

A social scientist named Ainsley, in his book Picoeconomics suggested that as humans, we are not wired to think in the long run. There is no evolutionary advantage. That seems to be the case. We have to have a better system of governance to account for new realities that our genes had no need for.