The Woolsey fire devastation gave 2020 contender Jay Inslee a climate-centered backdrop
“To think we have homes being routinely now burned to the ground, and not have the protection of the president of the United States — it’s absolutely unacceptable,” Inslee said as he toured the charred detritus of the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Agoura Hills, where nearly 100 homes were lost in the Woolsey fire.
“Trying to stop these forest fires just with raking the leaves is like trying to turn back the rising tide with a spoon,” Inslee said.Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington tours Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Agoura Hills. “It is very clear to me that this is an antebellum, antiquated vestige that is not democratic and stands in our way and stops cold any meaningful progress on climate change,” Inslee said.
“This is a good example, I suppose, of climate change — the drought situation creating these horrible conditions,” said Theresa Cavalleri, a 62-year-old account manager whose home of 22 years was destroyed. The fact that Inslee was incorporating her community into his larger pitch on climate change, she said, was “fabulous.”
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