The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California’s drought stricken forests. In 2016 alone, 62 million trees have died, representing more than a 100 percent increase in dead trees across the state from 2015. Millions of additional trees are weakened and expected to die in the coming months and years.

And, strangely, capitalists do not have money or any real plan to do anything, except small cheap measures. At the same time as Alphabet and Apple are avoiding taxes and shuffling hundreds of billions of offshores. No, government hopes for luck. And in place of bureaucrat you must hope for luck if you fear to upset your capitalist owners.