The 'economic miracle' in Texas means housing developments have sprawled into wildfire danger zones. Now the state has to tally the costs. Are homes going up in places they shouldn't be?
Raging wildfires destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Texas over the weekend and thousands of residents were evacuated from the most-threatened areas. Ten new fires labeled "large" by the Texas Forest Service cropped up Monday night across the state.
Drought conditions, high winds, and large amounts of dry, combustible brush are ultimately to blame for some 21,000 wildfires that have hit the state since December.
The loss of homes in the rocky hill country highlights how the addition of 2 million residents every five years has pushed urban sprawl into wildfire danger zones, or as former Austin assistant fire chief Kevin Baum calls it, the "top of a matchstick."
"Right now, the weather is downright malevolent, like some kind of ugly, invisible hand that's preventing us from getting rain. That's created not just the perfect storm, but the perfect set-up for a situation like this where people have been caught offguard by the intensity and violence of these wildfires."
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re: urban sprawl
Ever heard the term "urban sprawl". If not, you have now, and you need to know what is meant by it. It is another buzzword from the global green agenda. In the language of the globalist would-be green dictatorship, "urban sprawl" is the exact opposite of what they call a "sustainable city". It is a no-no in other words. Very clearly, the global management scheme known as Agenda 21 stipulates that all people on the planet live only in areas so designated for human habitation, i.e. sustainable cities. "Urban sprawl" refers to the spilling over of people out of those areas and into undesignated zones.
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The above map first came out in the days of the Clinton presidency. It was called "The Wildlands Project". Here is a brief explanation:


