I'm going to say something that may be largely unpopular here; but they are not entirely to blame. California is a state defined by wild fires. It's at the edge of a desert. It's always warm there. And it's on the west Coast. The hottest place in the world is in California. It's always been a tinder box.
People keep building and building there. The weather is great. But, that keeps making the area more and more dry. Blacktop does not allow water to go back into thw water table. The Colorado river keeps getting water pulled from it. It's hardly the river it once was.
I have a hard time thinking this is big oil because or this. I'm not for big oil. We just laughed at the face of mother nature and it laughed back at our hubris*.
I find the more people get banned for their rants the more it reinforces those beliefs and drives them to places that further solidifies their nich believe. In a true speach world people will correct them and give feedback.
Fell through the cracks. I don't know what to say there.