Regarding Holman W. Jenkins’s “Finally, Wildfire Sanity?” (Business World, Sept. 12): The precursor to the decimation wreaked by West Coast wildfires isn’t global warming primarily but reckless housing development in areas that never should have been developed in the first place, and it’s a failure of local government that this wasn’t stopped. I agree with Mr. Jenkins’s view that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reference to facing climate change head on is wrong-headed. And the statement made in the New York Times that “the mechanism driving the wildfire crisis is . the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil” is...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 20, 2020 17:15 UTC