After witnessing another Christmas Tree Burn festival and
the miles and hours-long plume of toxins created in Solvang, I’m thoroughly
convinced this city doesn’t care about its citizens, future generations, or the
planet.
Festival after festival they seem to only prove that they
will do anything to create profit opportunity for the vendors downtown. They
dangerously route thousands of vehicles through residential neighborhoods, even
past an elementary school, not develop even the most simple of traffic safety
plans, adopt sanctuary city policies that use up the limited available housing,
and even burn organic matter, en masse, and label it “fire safety education.”
Hundreds of wealthy people drinking expensive wine and eating
food while watching the city violate air quality regulations for the benefit of
a few vendors, as opposed to mulching the trees, is not “fire safety education.”
It’s profiteering, a Solvang specialty. What happened to climate change
concerns?