[net-gold] DISASTERS: FIRES : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING : ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL: As Drought Worsened, Rick Perry Slashed Fire-Fighting Spending
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- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:03:07 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FIRES :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING:
ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL:
As Drought Worsened,
Rick Perry Slashed Fire-Fighting Spending
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As Drought Worsened,
Rick Perry Slashed Fire-Fighting Spending
By Tim Murphy
Wednesday September 7, 2011 8:09 AM PDT
Mother Jones
Political Mojo
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/
drought-worsened-rick-perry-slashed-fire-fighting-spending
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3n92brx
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Wildfires are burning across central Texas right now, the product of an
historic drought and high winds from Tropical Storm Lee. An estimated 3.6
million acres have been scorched since November, with the flames
approaching the city limits of Austin; damage is expected to exceed $5
billion. In the macro-sense, this is climate change-caused problem, with
Texas' climate set to become dryer and dryer over the ensuing decades,
making extended droughts the new norm. But it's also a crisis of emergency
management. Although Texas Governor Rick Perry has called his state "a
model for the nation in disaster preparedness and response," he has taken
steps over the last year that would dramatically change that.
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Specifically, as Raw Story notes, Perry's most recent budget slashed
spending for volunteer fire departmentswho handle much of the
fire-fighting duties in rural areasby 75 percent, from $30 million to $7
million. The cuts meant that cash-strapped municipalities would then be
forced to either pick up the slack funding-wise, or deal with reduced
services and put off upgrading outdated equipment.
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Obviously Mr Perry didn't cause the fires. But over the past year, the
hallmarks of his response to the drought have been calls for prayer and
for federal emergency assistance. The first measure doesn't hurt, I
suppose, but I'm not aware of any data that supports its efficacy, and
prayer is not a good substitute for, say, a more prudent policy about
water management, which has long been known to be a looming challenge in
Texas and the southwest.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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