I live here. Have a seat and learn something, sir. In the state of California the environmentalist lobby sets policy. Controlled burns? Bad for air. Logging to reduce forest density? Bad for the owls. Focus on replacing ancient transmission lines? Nah, we're building wind farms. https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1303859640980172800

You can say "climate change" all you want but this state has been having droughts & wildfires for hundreds of years. Why are they "worse" now?
1. People are building further into rural areas and we no longer do controlled burns like we did 30 years ago.
2. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Logging-California-s-dead-trees-is-harmful-to-9698896.php

It's your party's radical environmentalists that refuse to let fuel be removed from California's forests. Dead trees are literally fire wood.