There have been lots of clean air efforts over the last several decades. Is it not a good thing for all our ICE's to run cleaner?
A-fucking-shit-ton, but this year is a little bit of an anomaly as far as major fires over the last decade are concerned. We can't do much about lightning, but we can make some defueling efforts and we can certainly update our infrastructure. It's not binary in that it's either everything or nothing, or that one imperfect thing ruins all the things. As with anything, it usually comes down to what you want. If you don't want to do anything, then you look for reasons to do nothing. If you want to do something, you look for ways to do something.
It's much easier where there are existing cultures which have an appreciation for efficiency, like with many EU countries, because it can exist without law and laws surrounding offspring are too 1984. In the US, excess is culturally celebrated and that's the dumb person's understanding of freedom, so as long as we have lots of dumb people, we're going to have lots of dumb people. That's a subject I really wish were a part of our founding documents, something about finite resources and beware of endless growth.
