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Commentary: Finland takes climate change seriously. We don't rake our forests

HELSINKI, Finland - When a natural disaster like the California wildfires inflicts such a tragic loss of life and land, you'd expect the president of the United States to respond with words of consolation. A show of empathy. A promise of help for the victims. But that's not what Californians got from President Donald Trump as he toured the areas destroyed by wildfires in Northern California.

Instead they got this bizarre statement: "I was with the president of Finland and he said: 'We're a forest nation.' He called it a forest nation, and they spend a lot of time on raking

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