I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it?

Fondots@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

You read it somewhere, so clearly someone has reported it

The issues are how do you

Get people to pay attention to those reports and care?
Get those people to vote accordingly?
Get those elected officials to hold the electric companies accountable?
Hold those elected officials accountable when they don’t?
Keep those people engaged and doing points 1-4 consistently so that it doesn’t happen again?

DudeWhoYapsTooMuch@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

You show the effects of the consequences of how it was reported, blame them and when it’s elected officials, you hold them accountable. The problem is that no one knows how to actually hold people accountable without getting nasty. We need to do what Zohran Mamdani did and put ourselves in the spotlight and do not shy away but keep it clean, and respectful.