Yes I agree with you here.
Solution is not government as with the Space race. It will be won by private industry. I'm perplexed that more bay areas thought leaders haven't jumped on this problem given how close it is to their back yards.
Solution is not government as with the Space race. It will be won by private industry. I'm perplexed that more bay areas thought leaders haven't jumped on this problem given how close it is to their back yards.
It's plausible that you could see some private solutions to accomplishing known goals, and see those sold to the government. But that leaves the resourcing problem, which is why some known policies aren't already being implemented in the first place.
Could private landowners invest in this themselves? Maybe, but it has the same incentive/risk-management problems that are the reason most people rely on public fire departments.
The solution is one that would scale up to big fires but handle the small ones first.
If I had a solution to put out a 20 acre brush fire near my house in under an hour I would not be waiting for the fire trucks to arrive