Devastating Flash Floods in New Mexico Expose Crisis of Climate Mismanagement and Emergency Response Failures

The tragic loss of three lives—including a man and two young children—in the mountain village of Ruidoso, New Mexico, underscores a disturbing pattern of government failure in natural disaster management. On Tuesday, monsoon rains unleashed flash floods so intense they swept an entire house downstream, while emergency crews scrambled to rescue residents trapped by rapidly rising waters.This disaster was not a surprise but rather a predictable consequence of ignored warnings about wildfire aftermath. The region’s vegetation, stripped bare by last summer’s South Fork and Salt fires which destroyed over 1,400 structures, left the soil unable to absorb rainfall effectively. As...