Don't blame wildfires on climate change – it's environmentalists' fault, says Zinke
by Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco from Environment | The Guardian on (#3WQZX)
US interior secretary Ryan Zinke blames environmentalists for the devastation in California and calls for an increase in logging
The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California's ferocious wildfires and claimed, contrary to scientific research, that climate change had "nothing to do" with them. Instead, he said the fires were worsened because of limits on logging.
"America is better than letting these radical groups control the dialogue about climate change," Zinke told KCRA, a TV station in northern California, on Sunday. "Extreme environmentalists have shut down public access. They talk about habitat and yet they are willing to burn it up."
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