Close to one half million living healthy trees to be cut down around San Francisco!!

[truedelphi]

64. However, mark my words, the only people that will profit from this

Are those companies that will do the clear cutting and then will be hired to do the on going pesticide applications of RoundUp and other seriously toxic pesticides.

In the end, only RoundUp resistant trees and bushes will be able to be planted. Yeah Monsanto!

As far as safety, quality of life is important also. if I live inside a bunker fortified with steel walls, and cement, some two hundred feet underground, I will never experience a dread event like what people in the Oakland Hills experienced in the early 1990's.

But what would my quality of life be?

I would not mind some selective cutting and thinning of trees, but this is overkill.

By the way, that fire in the Oakland Hills was the fault of the fire department, that had inadequately kept watch over an area where a grass fire had burned. The standard protocols were ignored, and the area was deemed safe even though it was still smoldering. Not surprisingly, the smoldering area became an actual fire. Some people blame a changing of the guard, as the Oakland Fire Dept head had resigned or retired and a new guy came in right before the fire. (Forgetting if this change was 24 hours or 72 hours before the fire.)

But people on this thread make it sound like the eucs spontaneously combusted.