The details about the human failures behind the Maui fires keep getting worse
Zachary Faria
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The liberal media obsession with climate change continues to mask the reality of what happened in Hawaii: human incompetence made for dangerous circumstances that predictably killed over a hundred people.
The Associated Press has confirmed that “miles” of wire were left exposed to the wind and “often-thick foliage, despite a recent push by utilities in other wildfire- and hurricane-prone areas to cover up their lines or bury them.” Bare, uninsulated wires were responsible for the fire blooming “all at once in long, neat rows.”
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On top of that, the power poles holding those bare wires were built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” according to documents from Hawaiian Electric, the utility company responsible for providing power to 95% of Hawaii’s residents. According to the Associated Press, “They were nowhere close to meeting a 2002 national standard that key components of Hawaii’s electrical grid be able to withstand 105 mile per hour winds.” (Emphasis added.)
Yet, despite this, Democratic politicians and Democratic voters attribute the fires to climate change, that faceless phantom that floats over all of us and is responsible for every “natural” disaster. It does not matter that both the wires and power poles were obviously below standard to the point that you could see it with street view on Google and that tourists even noticed it during their visits, both things the Associated Press highlights. Evidently, climate change must be to blame for Hawaiian Electric’s failures.
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Climate change was not responsible for the naked wires or decrepit power poles, nor was it responsible for the lack of forest management or Hawaiian government officials failing to sound alarms or provide water in a timely matter. With each passing day, it becomes clear that this was a human failure from top to bottom, stretching over decades, not an act of the climate gods who are upset that more people aren’t driving electric vehicles.
Disasters like this are going to continue to happen, not because of climate change but because humans are often incompetent. These disasters will become even worse if those humans in charge of utilities or government agencies slack off while assigning all blame for their failures on society as a whole for being insufficiently dedicated to fighting climate change.