Mathews: Blame the trees.

It’s not only the blue-purple blossoms that you jacarandas use to stain Californians’ cars, or the rats that your palms harbor. It’s not even that your out-of-control fires foul California’s air, destroy Californians’ homes and drain the state budget.

No, what really upsets me is that instead of being accountable for all the trouble you cause, you leave us humans to solve all your problems.