I got a new job that I really love. I love being there and doing what I'm doing. The only thing is that I have to drive about an hour each way. It's not bad. I use that time to listen to podcasts and be in the know of current events.
The recent news about the Maui "wildfires" got me enraged for so many reasons.
For your information, I DO NOT BLAME NATURE for this. Far from it!
Climate change my a**!
The first thing I hear is that there was this huge wildfire that burnt down a beautiful city in Maui but only 80 died.
My thought was, 'What?! How does a whole city burn with only 80 people dying? I've been to Maui so I know that no matter how small the island, there has to be a lot more people residing there.'
The next thing I hear is that the governor is an enforcer of climate change and practically exalts water like a god. Preserving nature, conserving natural resources, that's all great, but where are your priorities?! What's the point of having great nature if valuable lives are lost? Anyway, I hear that the city delayed emergency response to allow water to be used to stop the fire. That infuriates me enormously.
Then, from various other sources, I learn that the citizens trying to escape the fire were barricaded in, hence the images of cars in tight assemble with a vast road unventured a few yards away. According to the witnesses, the police that barricaded them repeated over and over that they were just following orders. Orders to do what? To block the residents from escaping the fire? First of all, what police officer in his right mind would obey such an order while seeing what he is seeing?
Let's give the benefit of the doubt that the people in charge giving orders were ignorant to how bad the situation was and didn't know that evacuation took precedence over chaos and disorder. Let's say that the police officer initially agreed to obey and went on site and drove there to barricade the area. How, I mean how can you possibly let the people burn in flames because of some order you were given?
Then, while the residents are homeless and mourning over the loss of their beloved ones, investors try to bargain and buy off their land? Does anyone have compassion anymore?
To make it worse, the media blames the fires to climate change. Do you know why this is bad? It's because this puts a stop to ever finding the real cause of the fire. One of the things that the Lahaina residents probably want most is to find out how and why all this happened. What did they lose everything for?
I lived in Hawaii for a very long time. It is very humid. It is always raining. That's why it is known for its rainbows. It rains, then sun shines, only to rain again. For fire to catch and spread that fast in that kind of weather cannot be natural.
Some say it's the powerlines, some say it's an arsonist, some say it's neglect of forest management, and some say it's DEW (Direct Energy Weapon)...it could be a combination of all four, but what I do know is that this was intentional at the expense of valuable lives, especially the lives of children who were at home without their parents.
We failed to protect the children. We failed to protect our own people. That is what enrages me.
Is this a land grab scheme? Is this a chance to claim another climate change tragedy? Is this an opportunity to raise donations aka launder money? Is this a strategy to build a Smart City that the residents have resisted? Whatever this is, it was done at the expense of children's lives. I really hope that guilt builds and grows inside the culprits who enabled this, and over time, may that guilt swallow them whole into a black hole of misery.
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