The Other View Of Fire

I recently ran across a column taking essentially the opposite view from the John Krist article on the California fires that I commented on a few posts ago. Tim Rutten says that halting suburban development is unthinkable, and that fires like the recent ones are the price we pay for freedom. My own sympathies lay more toward the Krist side, but Rutten's column is an excellent exposition of the pro-suburbia-despite-fires attitude that I said Krist was forgetting existed.