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There's lots of talk of mismanagement regarding the LA wildfires. I agree that we should learn and try to improve, but where the "system boundaries" are being drawn in the search for lessons is more often than not, imo, far too narrow. A 🧵

The political process has been mismanaged, allowing fossil fuel company wealth and power to influence policy.

The news media has been mismanaged, starved of resources and the power to counteract disinformation from vested interests, and too often treating a stable climate as something "scientists want" instead of something everyone needs.

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

Democracy has been mismanaged putting all sorts of obstacles in the way of marginalized people (who also tend to be climate action supporters) exercising their civil rights.

Global climate diplomacy has been mismanaged, including by allowing massive power differentials between the countries bearing the costs and countries with historic responsibility.

Educational institutions have been mismanaged, fostering divisions between disciplines as though climate can be separate from health, and the university's endowment can be separated from our shared planetary endowment.

Philanthropy has been mismanaged, favoring narrow technical solutions instead of going whole heartedly into challenging narratives and supporting the long-term work of coalition and power building that grapples with historic inequity.

The economy has been mismanaged allowing a few to profit while the many bear the costs of the burning of fossil fuels.

That's not to say there's not a lot to learn about building codes and crisis management. But if we are doing an honest search for how tragedies like what is playing out in LA continue to happen, we have to acknowledge that it's not little bugs, its' deep features of current systems.