Record breaking profits for shareholders and CEO's aren't a problem until and except, oh yeah, their labor is on food stamps and struggling to survive while generating this unprecedented wealth.
I'll assume you mean this in good faith but it's not the non-existence of wealth but it is the non-existence of gross inequality. The average person cares about the environment they care about the air they breathe. The fires that ravage through their community. When there's this much inequality, the average person does not get to decide what steps are done to mitigate climate dangers such as these. We are all un-democraticly subject to the whims of the most powerful and greed consumed individuals in our society who could give less of a damn about our well-being. As long as their wealth and subsequently their power continues to go up everything is good. We don't live in a democracy and the excessive inequality of wealth & power is the reason why. Therefore, billionaires should not exist.
@@christopherknight-k3bMaybe we wouldn't have the need to turn the Earth into a boiling pot so that we can make record profits for our poor billionaire CEOS. I mean we should work to the bone so they could be trilluonaries, right?
@@christopherknight-k3bIt’s not the existence of wealth, it’s the existence of billionaires. If you don’t understand why they should not exist you must be terrible at Math to not understand how much a billion actually is. No one needs a billion let alone hundreds of billions. I don’t think the human mind can even fathom how big a number hundreds of billions of dollars is.
The democrats' preferred self-image as the champions of the little guy, but that runs head-on into the democrats' reality. It is not the party of working people anymore. In fact, the democrat party hates working people. Working people like God, families, guns, and America, which makes them racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and probably fatist. What do democrats offer the working class? More lectures? More limits? More hardships? You can't have cars, you can't have steaks, and you certainly can't have a rifle. You can have subways full of homicidal hobos, cash giveaways to Ukrainians and Third World peasant invaders, and government employees trying to talk your son into becoming your daughter.
@@glennhibben7757 Everything will be great when all the decision are made in board rooms and not in a ballot boxes. Public education, healthcare, and the environment does not have a good return on investments. Reaganomics is great. Greed will save all of mankind.🤣😅🤣 Let me know how it works out.
@@MasterRoss-sn7dl nothing to do with Australia but we send firefighters and equipment since we have an agreement and don’t get billions for nothing cause we’re what you call real mates or a real ally.
@@talleman1 George Carlin told you 30 years ago that for American Dream you gotta be asleep to believe it. Build yourself fiat-currency worshipping slaves in a plutocracy... that's what happens.
The practical lesson Californians should learn, because neither fixing climate change nor the American now widespread genuflection to power or money are propitious, is that building houses in places where humidity often hits zero and the winds decide whether you burn into a crispy hotdog should be made legally unavailable. It’s sheer recklessness to keep planting homes in fire-prone tinderboxes and then act surprised when they go up in flames. Americans need laws that prioritize human safety over land speculation, drawing hard lines where nature has clearly marked danger zones in this new reality.
Our Man Trump is EXACTLY right! CA govt needs to invest in reducing or eliminating burnable material on the forest floors throughout areas that are populated, to help prevent these huge fires that have destroyed lives and homes throughout CA. They need to divert water from the north to the south via the California Aqueduct instead of letting it go into the Pacific Ocean!! They need to stop WASTING our tax dollars on foolish, stupid infrastructure systems like massive solar farms and the JOKE called "high speed rail" and get back to COMMON SENSE!! California's governor's and other WOKE California leaders' PRIORITIES are completely SCREWED UP!!
In 1990s a super-Typhoon devastated Guam, and blew everything out to sea. _The Governor and the insurance writers banned wooden structures and house trailers._ All homes are cinderblock with steel doors, steel window covers and concrete roofs. I rode out a woopwoop typhoon with a candle, after the lights went out, kinda boring, so went to sleep as it roared across the island. In the morning we cut up and hauled off the trees in the road, the power came back around noon, in time to get to the grocery store. Have no sympathy for LA/FL. *There have been wild Santa Ana winds and wildfires recorded back to 1769.*
In Australia we have fire prone residential areas and they have strict regulations about fire protection of buildings. There are fire proof claddings for building now. Japanese use burned wood for fire protection. That rusty steel Corten steel cladding is very good too. I have worked on buildings that have fire shutters facing the heavily wooded and fire prone areas. These have heat/thermal and smoke detectors which trigger the fire shutters to drop down. Obviously steel structure instead of timber will survive fires better.However these too have to be fire rated or fire protected. Thick Fibre Cement cladding has high fire rating. People have sprinkler system over their houses in the bush here. These need power generators that supply power to pump the water into these when the power network goes down during a fire. Also hemp products and hempcrete panels and cladding are fire proof too. Hemp is a wonderful eco crop and we should be growing it all over the place especially to replace timber use. We certainly have to rethink out home building on the planet. There are fire resistant plants to grow around homes to stop the encroachment of fires like succulents. Know gum trees are really lovely but they are a big fire risk. We well know about this in Australia with all our eucalyptus forests.
What the World is witnessing is science, physics, chemistry and nature in action. Humans are standing in the way. Humans are playing with the system by adding too much Co2 into the system and nature is replying.
@@Valkron11 I think you need to look a little more deeply, friend. I think you will find that you are focused on the wrong thing. Human caused climate change has been on the scientific radar for over one hundred years, and the fact that we still are not doing anything to stop or reverse it is not going to sustain us. And there is nothing funny I can find in it.
@@Valkron11 And? What does that have to do with the fact that the planet is on fire due to human stupidity? Or are you just pointing out earlier stupidity?
Our Man Trump is EXACTLY right! CA govt needs to invest in reducing or eliminating burnable material on the forest floors throughout areas that are populated, to help prevent these huge fires that have destroyed lives and homes throughout CA. They need to divert water from the north to the south via the California Aqueduct instead of letting it go into the Pacific Ocean!! They need to stop WASTING our tax dollars on foolish, stupid infrastructure systems like massive solar farms and the JOKE called "high speed rail" and get back to COMMON SENSE!! California's governor's and other WOKE California leaders' PRIORITIES are completely SCREWED UP!!
@@DubstepZeDI have concern for other nations. I donated when the Tsunami took lives in Indonesia, Sri Lanka. I don't have family in California, but care. I am human.
@@Blue_Tambourine Rick Caruso warned about underfunded fire department but too bad he was running against a WOC who wins and further cuts the budget and leaves the fire hydrates empty in addition to inviting illegals into the city, one of whom committed the Kenneth fire arson which is currently burning my street. Now you tell me why I would vote for this cult of insanity?!
Same reason they don't support other worthy causes. Money doesn't necessarily equate to higher intelligence. We've got lots of lower intelligence coming into power.
What’s sad is that Americans seem to blame justify and deny rather than get together as humans to find solutions and learn that it not us and them it’s all of us in this together
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies People like you complain about anything the government does. You would not have supported emergency budget measures for the firefighters.
@@someonenotnoone Incorrect. "People like me" watch what people do and use facts to hold them accountable when they fail miserably. Especially when lives and property are lost in the process. Take off your rose colored glasses and see reality. I would NOT have supported what they ACTUALLY did which was to take $17.6 million dollars from the firefighters budget in the first place! Common sense!
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies Wow, an actual fact! So you're saying the problem is government didn't spend enough money. Let's just be clear because just calling the government inept is exactly how you can get even less money for the government.
They don'; and cannot connect the dots. But this channel does not either, blaming it on climate change. These fires had zero to do with climate change. Looks like it was planned adn they just waited for the right wind speeds to kick in. Insurances were cancelled, water hydrants were not inspected or filled, no rain water collection facilities during the big rains the last two years and so on. They needed to clear the area of all people to make room the the Olympic structures, later to be taken over by high tech AI companies. The more you scream "Climate change" the worse things get in the environment - stop it already.
The more we focus on the impossible task of changing the global climate the more we miss the practical on-ground solutions that are proven to work through history
Sorry, but I worry about my own family first. I worry about my fellow Americans, my neighbors, my coworkers, Gaza? I have my own things to worry about.
Climate chage is definitely a big contributing factor, but it's definitely not the only one. Lack of funding, mismanagement, the hurricane force winds, and I'm sure many other factors.
Climate has changed since time began. This isn't climate change. This is bringing in the new world order, smart cities, AI. Protocols of Zion! Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars!! Read them.cant listen to the rest of this. This guy is probably a Jew!
Not really, California was always dry and always had fires. Its not even hot now! just 20*C. Main cause of devastation is mismanagement by leftist woke california government. They care more about pride month than about hiring firefighters.
"Billionaires should not exist" -- the most important quote came in the last 3 seconds. Billionaires are completely out of touch with the working class ATLEAST they shouldn't be in government.
A wake-up call to liberal and Democrat supporters: Wildfires have been a recurring issue in California. Have city and state leaders fixed it? I don’t think so. Despite being the highest-taxed state, California continues to run a budget deficit-so where is the money going?
They absolutely have to rebuild entire neighbourhoods to prep for worsening fires. And because it's changing so fast in such unpredictable ways, building practices will have to be revisited every few years.
You guys have so many things to worry about . Man too bad there is not a higher power, like a super God-like being that has control and is seeing all of this. And all you had to do was put your faith in him . Shucks
You guys speak both sides of your mouth; on one hand you get angry when america butts into other contries business, and on the other you want us to provide aid USING SOMEONE ELSES MONEY to offer aide to our ally's sworn enemy. You guys are a piece of work.
Why are stupid people acting like these fires never happened and this time its arson. The fires this year are smaller than in the past. But they are always happening. The difference is that past wild fires happened in rural California and this year urban California is hit by fires.
Climate wake up? I was born in San Diego. We’ve had these hot Santa Ana wind since I was a child. We’ve had fires burned through Monte Vista Ranch, which was basically open land from Fort Drive all the way to the border of Mexico. It wasn’t global warming. It was hot Santa Ana winds And dry brush because they didn’t get any water.
The democrats' preferred self-image as the champions of the little guy, but that runs head-on into the democrats' reality. It is not the party of working people anymore. In fact, the democrat party hates working people. Working people like God, families, guns, and America, which makes them racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and probably fatist. What do democrats offer the working class? More lectures? More limits? More hardships? You can't have cars, you can't have steaks, and you certainly can't have a rifle. You can have subways full of homicidal hobos, cash giveaways to Ukrainians and Third World peasant invaders, and government employees trying to talk your son into becoming your daughter.
@@JustinOldman-y4h Can you explain how Trumps plan to pump water from the North will be a solution? So you take water from that area, deposit it into a desert , then watch it evaporate- then the North doesn't have enough water to sustain it's own geography. How is that a solution?
All they do is politicize these events while at the same time tell everyone that we can’t politicize school shootings when they happen because we need to think of the victims.
@@JavierFernandez-k9b You won't stop a fire in this tinder box, spread by massive winds, with any brush clearing. Climate change needs to be taken seriously, and funds and strategies to cope with those (now) inevitable disasters (that will keep getting worst) need to be appropriately distributed.... for one!
While the memes about wealthy climate change deniers losing their mcmansions to the warming globe are funny, know that most people losing everything to the firestorms are just regular working class people who need your help. If anyone finds any donation funds or mutual support groups for folks in the area please help in whatever ways you can!
I've been a Los Angeles resident for decades. It is unfortunate that this report puts funding for fire fighters and for police at odds right at the outset. These are both public resources and both should be funded. What the newscasters are not being mindful of are funding choices that are 100% the result of the influence of private interests. California Governor Newsom recently proposed $750 million for "film subsidies." These are handouts of public funds directly into the pockets of private interests hiding behind the workers they are simultaneously starving through capital strike. Basically, it's a hostage situation, with studios being the hostage takers, workers being the hostages, and the tax-payer being the ransom payers. It is madness and cuts to the funding of public goods results in poor outcomes like these out of control fires.
There is an argument that if Republicans were in charge they would have pushed for wildfire prevention but we know that politicians don't tend to put money towards prevention. Look at all of the infrastructure fails these past years. I lived thru Snowmageddon in TX where people including a 9 yr old boy froze to death in his bed...in the wealthiest nation in the world...in a state with its own power grid. TX is run by Republicans BTW...a governor and more. Um, You remember that one man who was caught on his way to Cancun..? So enough of the political red or blue argument from folks who want to do that. The local taxpayers should have fought tooth and nail for what they needed!! We have to stop trusting that the leaders are doing what they should be doing.
@@Merriwether-w8k here's the thing about that, though. A lot of the people living in those homes that have been destroyed are the same people who have created the problem of film incentives in the first place. And this might be a surprise to you, but incentives do not "save" the entertainment business; they just keep them in certain geographies over others. It's basically ransom money. They erode the tax base but deliver nothing that wouldn't have been there if the film incentive game had never started in the first place. It was a conscious decision to allow film incentives which was made by Nick Counter (AMPTP president at the time) and Tom Short (IATSE president at the time). It's just greed and the raiding of public funds by the people who need them the least. My point is that this video pits one public good against another while ignoring the privatization of the tax-revenues, basically another form of trickle-up economics.
I think at this moment the people who live where the fire is happening will think about the Palestinians, Palestinian children, how cruelly Israel takes away homes, lives, limbs, parents of children from the Palestinians, this fire also takes away your homes, I sympathize with you, God grant that the world will finally have peace without pain, people, think about the Palestinians, it is much, much harder for them than you can imagine, bombs are dropped on them every day and they have no food, no medicine
OCT 7!!! Israel has every right to defend itself and make sure that NEVER happens again. They still have hostages! Where is THAT outrage? Those people who were murdered, brutalized etc were people, too. Outrageous comment.
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies Palestinians also have the right to defend themselves why do you think October 7th happened. Use your brain and do your research.
I don’t think people realize how much we’re polluting the environment simply by taking a flight, a cruise or even overconsumption. If you’re one who loves to travel or buy unnecessary stuff, please rethink your lifestyle . 🤷🏻♀️
@@Cj2024caexitexactly! While the rich have MULTIPLE huge homes and travel frequently! They furnish the huge homes and eat the best foods, fly on personal jets! Hello!!
I mean, some celebrity Zionists lost their homes, which I am quite amused about. But many more who lost their homes or shelters were impoverished and are also victims of the U.S. government's tyranny.
I have lived on the north end of Vancouver Island most of my 65 years one of the wettest places on earth 🌍. It does not rain here like it did in past .
Everybody wants everybody just to go back to work. But we have to realize that when we do go back to work and we start to get this country moving again and needs to be in a green way. And we need to do it globally
No it isn't, that's why Vegans keep banging their gums, to hide the actual fact that *Vegans are carbon volcanoes. Row-cropping is 100% dependent on fossil fuels* and teratogenic petrochemical pesticides and herbicides, the Real 6th Extinction.
All those celebrity homes. Those that stayed silent at the suffering of Palestinians by Israel using their own tax money. The prayer of the oppressed is powerful. Losing home, being kicked out of one’s own home is devastating isn’t.
Yeah, I really don't care about the celebrities, as many of them are Zionists. Many of those celebrity goons don't need their second or third home in LA. I will offer my sympathies to those who are homeless or impoverished, though.
It’s like we are sleep walking into climate suicide. Will this horrific event be the tipping point of our social awareness of the climate crisis? And to finally act? In the meantime I’m doing what I can to reduce my carbon footprint and hope others will do the same. Just donated to this channel as well. Thanks for covering this event as it should be covered, as another climate change related event.
Every event that happens on earth is a climate related event. Cutting the usage of fossil fuels is the worst strategy we can take if your primary goal is reducing human suffering. Our limited resources should be focused on preparing our infrastructure to withstand future climate disasters, not trying to cool the earth. What would be a better strategy for the people of California for combatting fires over the next 100 years? Going carbon neutral or redirecting ice melt into reservoirs as opposed to the Pacific Ocean?
@@cabanacaterer There is no proof made of AGW theory, nor is any proof possible, since natural biological and geological CO2 far exceeds humans. So CO2 will always keep going up, then you can blame anything for it. Long lines are getting longer every year!! Burgers are getting smaller every year!! Soon there will be lines everywhere, and nano-burgers!! *Magic CO2!*
I am not a climate change denier, but the major culprit of these fires is the over - development of land that is potentially inhospitable to human development, not climate change. The type of disaster that occurred in this region will happen whether climate change occurs or not. Notice how Mr. Vaillant did not talk about “climate change” in his open remarks, he instead spoke of the collision of human built environments with the natural environment. He did state that an area such as LA is “at the mercy of climate,” but this holds true for any and all human development at any time in history. It is not until Ms. Goodman’s rant about the lack of recognition of climate change in the mainstream media, does Mr. Vaillant start to bring in the subject of climate change. The rainfall amounts in this region are erratic and have been throughout recorded meteorological history. In fact the two previous winters, rainfall has been above average in the LA area. This year, there is a drought. I wish organizations like Democracy Now would focus their argument about climate change on events that are more applicable. Doing so would give more mainstream attention and honest evidence to the ongoing problem of climate change.
@@CowboyConan No they’re just THIS winter. Look at the last 1,000 or 10,0000 winters if you want to do any kind of climate studies. We all want to avoid disasters like this. The views of Democracy Now will not help mitigate.
No, the fires in Hawaii were the wakeup call. Unfortunately it takes expensive properties being destroyed for the issue to get any real attention. I don't feel sorry for the fabulously rich losing their homes. Maybe they will move away and lower the property prices for everyone else.
They are issued as LOANS but then fintech experts pointed out Ukraine had no way to pay them back, so Biden started calling them 'grants'. He'd a dog faced poo.
The Kamchatka volcanoes in the 1980s changed the climate of California. In 2004 I landscaped an acre with DG and rocks and California low water native plants. I watched pines around dry up and removed them. I cut the scrub down to one inch ( clearing brush) yearly in North San Diego. I was always afraid of fire. I sold the home after 16 years with heartbreak over leaving such beauty. Now in North LA and woke up one morning to realize these winds make my current home vulnerable. This community has no gas and everyone has solar. I do not blame the Governor for the changing California climate. We are becoming a desert.
And one more thing about the fire prevention. Unless you have lived in L.A. you have no idea how much vegetation there is all over. That is why it looks so beautiful. No way that firefighters would have cleared everything in Will Rogers State Park, Topanga, Runyon, Laurel and Coldwater Canyons, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Los Feliz & Griffith Park and then over in AltaDena, Pasadena and La Canada. That wasnt going to happen regardless of who was in charge. The locals should have demanded that their areas be taken care of and that the funds be made available. But at the end of the day it is a tragic freak circumstance that the Santa Ana winds were blowing when the fires started.
There are areas that should never have been built in. Growing up in LA we learn about chaparral and how nature designed it to burn hot and fast to open its seeds. In addition to making BIG changes to reduce the climate changes scientists have been warning about for decades, we also need to look at urban planning and work with and respect nature instead of trying to dominate or subdue it. The population of LA, in this context, is unsustainable.
It's not true that Karen Bass cut the fire department budget. It was an accounting issue, that 2% was in a fund, available to the department. Not that I'm defending other decisions she's made on the issue, but this accusation that she gave money from fire to police is wrong.
Thank you! The staus quo approach of climate crisis denialism will increase the frequency of wild fires, hurricanes, etc. How can we deal with this without global cooperation?
Thank you so much for the fact you are not only mentioning, but concentrating on the climate crisis. Most news, even the respectable sources, are barely mentioning it, let alone centering around it.
Now we see the relationship between overfunding police departments and our ability to adequately protect citizens from climate disasters. Maybe defunding the police to fund other departments and agencies is not a bad idea.
The ones suffering from this are not the wicked oligarchs and dictators, but are the working class and poor. I understand the bitter feelings toward the U.S., but no one should wish this upon people just trying to get by in this messed up nation.
@hightower6645 The west and the like are evil warmongers because they worship the evil man-made God of Adam/Eve/Abraham/Moses/Jesus that never even existed in history...
On a personal level, I’m glad I’m not in LA because, as someone with asthma, I would be fighting to breathe. Few people are talking about the health impacts of the fires and how they are going to hurt people with disabilities, such as heart disease, asthma and COPD, and those with multiple health issues. Not to mention that the US has the worst healthcare system in the developed world, which will become overloaded with patients in the area, as this disaster will play out in the near and distant future. Combined this with the climate disaster unfolding, and you have nothing short of a catastrophic breakdown of the system. What’s really sicking is that this is all part of how late stage capitalism is functioning.
Most of the people suffering in the fires are not the people who are funneling millions into Lockheed Martin and other weapons industries responsible for imperialism and genocide. There's a lot of working class people in that mix who have sent the little income they make in this stupid country over to the families struggling in Gaza. I can understand the bitter feelings you feel toward the U.S., but not every American is a cold-hearted husk like Netanyahu.
So why can’t your tech billionaires focus on developing fire proof and hurricane proof building materials for homes instead of working on conquering outer space?
I grew up in Southern California and so I learned right away what the santa ana winds were and what they could do. They were warm winds. Now they are faster and hotter. Coupled with persistent drought and you have what you now are seeing.
In South America, we are currently facing extreme drought season and heat/ very high temperatures, resulting in 90 days of blackouts and forest fires , this all documented in the news. The UN reported these events are caused by the current climate emergency and will ocurr more frequently worldwide. The Amazon river is drying up. In my country we voted in a referendum, after 10 years of legal fights and protests, to protect our rivers, flora and fauna in our Amazon region, others countries should do the same. We are one!
The Santa Ana winds were blowing through at 80-90 mph in the mountain passes and through the valleys. All it takes is for a powerline to strain and cause a single arc of electricity. Or worse, cause a downed power line. It has happened before. PG&E paid a 55 million dollar settlement in 2022 for 2 wildfires that occurred in 2018
I'm guessing the hurricane force winds and power lines mixed with potential irresponsible fires. Hard to say though until it gets put out. Even a single cigarette butt can do some damage.
“The biggest cars we can drive…” Why are car manufacturers still making these hugh SUVs? They are everywhere around the world, how insane! We know why people purchase them… but they are in denial… we are our worst enemy.
Climate disasters covered as isolated incidents - there really are NO isolated incidents. Everything that happens, happens within a dense context of factors…
I said this before and I'll say it again. You can take 1 billionaire and have them give 330 million to 330 million people in the United States of America. And you still wouldn't fix the problems this country has.
A few years back had a speaker on your show this lady talk about a meeting she had a talk with oil producers climate change. She had a talk with the oil industry. They ask the speaker where can they go to live after they destroy this country.
I keep reading in comments about neglect and no brush cleaning. I’ll look this up, but why are firefighters not brush clearing if that is what helps? Does it really help? If so, how come they’re not prioritizing? I apologize for my ignorance but these are the questions on my mind while watching this.
California did more prescribed burns than ever last year. Due to budget constraints *AND* existing fires taking up firefighters time, there was a pause on controlled burns started in October. People like JustinOldman would fight to stop that budget increase *AND* blame the government for the fires.
Mismanagement, and a lot of the most vocal climate folks unfortunately don't really believe in it either. Hell, I've done quite a bit of it here in Oregon as a kid (I went to a youth corps for awhile).
Is water Nationalised in Scotland? Yes, it truly does. Scottish Water is publicly owned. What is the water Act in Scotland? This act lists most of the powers and duties associated with supplying drinking water in Scotland. Water authorities (now Scottish Water) must supply wholesome water for domestic purposes. It is a criminal offence to supply water unfit for human consumption.
The irony of the highest state taxes, mandating all sorts of “environmental rules, regulations, carbon tax relating to climate change etc”…. Sending up billions of tons of carbon from THEIR fires.
And rather than desalinization plants irrigating these woods where the fires start, for decades they've been doused with densely salinated ocean water which has dessicated these woods with their salt. These salted woods were mere tinder that rapidly extend the scope of these fires faster & farther every year. These latest fires were inevitable. 😢😭
Too many people on the planet. They have destroyed the earth. No sympathy. Humans have stolen animal habitats, made animals homeless and more. Good riddance to humans. SAVE THE ANIMALS. IT IS THEIR PLANET TOO.
Billionaires are completely out of touch with the working class they shouldn't be in government.
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They aren't in government. They simply buy and pay for it. Both parties.
Yet you're a puppet of one.
Not just the working class...they're completely out of touch with reality.
geoge soros won the medal of honor by democrats.
"Billionaires should not exist" -- the most important quote came in the last 3 seconds.
how 🤔 exactly would the nonexistance of wealth anywhere have prevented these fires ? asking for a friend
Record breaking profits for shareholders and CEO's aren't a problem until and except, oh yeah, their labor is on food stamps and struggling to survive while generating this unprecedented wealth.
I'll assume you mean this in good faith but it's not the non-existence of wealth but it is the non-existence of gross inequality. The average person cares about the environment they care about the air they breathe. The fires that ravage through their community. When there's this much inequality, the average person does not get to decide what steps are done to mitigate climate dangers such as these. We are all un-democraticly subject to the whims of the most powerful and greed consumed individuals in our society who could give less of a damn about our well-being. As long as their wealth and subsequently their power continues to go up everything is good. We don't live in a democracy and the excessive inequality of wealth & power is the reason why. Therefore, billionaires should not exist.
@@christopherknight-k3bMaybe we wouldn't have the need to turn the Earth into a boiling pot so that we can make record profits for our poor billionaire CEOS. I mean we should work to the bone so they could be trilluonaries, right?
@@christopherknight-k3bIt’s not the existence of wealth, it’s the existence of billionaires. If you don’t understand why they should not exist you must be terrible at Math to not understand how much a billion actually is. No one needs a billion let alone hundreds of billions. I don’t think the human mind can even fathom how big a number hundreds of billions of dollars is.
And billionaires should not exist in government!
Go to China Commie
The democrats' preferred self-image as the champions of the little guy, but that runs head-on into the democrats' reality. It is not the party of working people anymore. In fact, the democrat party hates working people. Working people like God, families, guns, and America, which makes them racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and probably fatist. What do democrats offer the working class? More lectures? More limits? More hardships? You can't have cars, you can't have steaks, and you certainly can't have a rifle. You can have subways full of homicidal hobos, cash giveaways to Ukrainians and Third World peasant invaders, and government employees trying to talk your son into becoming your daughter.
Why?We have had non business people running the government for years,and how has that worked out?
Billionaires should not exist.
@@glennhibben7757 Everything will be great when all the decision are made in board rooms and not in a ballot boxes. Public education, healthcare, and the environment does not have a good return on investments. Reaganomics is great. Greed will save all of mankind.🤣😅🤣 Let me know how it works out.
Where’s the millions in aid from Israel
Exactly. Now they need it back.🤦
Israel could care less, they are just there if they need something from the US, "disgusting" 😢.
Billions from Ukraine and Israel
@@JudithSchoner Exactly Judith well said!
@@MasterRoss-sn7dl nothing to do with Australia but we send firefighters and equipment since we have an agreement and don’t get billions for nothing cause we’re what you call real mates or a real ally.
Not everyone was a billionaire who lost their homes.
@@talleman1 George Carlin told you 30 years ago that for American Dream you gotta be asleep to believe it. Build yourself fiat-currency worshipping slaves in a plutocracy... that's what happens.
Some of them were just millionaires
Some were working people who don't have wealth. Some were renting, not homeowners.
Ok multi millionaire
@@irthlingz yes.
The practical lesson Californians should learn, because neither fixing climate change nor the American now widespread genuflection to power or money are propitious, is that building houses in places where humidity often hits zero and the winds decide whether you burn into a crispy hotdog should be made legally unavailable. It’s sheer recklessness to keep planting homes in fire-prone tinderboxes and then act surprised when they go up in flames. Americans need laws that prioritize human safety over land speculation, drawing hard lines where nature has clearly marked danger zones in this new reality.
Our Man Trump is EXACTLY right! CA govt needs to invest in reducing or eliminating burnable material on the forest floors throughout areas that are populated, to help prevent these huge fires that have destroyed lives and homes throughout CA. They need to divert water from the north to the south via the California Aqueduct instead of letting it go into the Pacific Ocean!! They need to stop WASTING our tax dollars on foolish, stupid infrastructure systems like massive solar farms and the JOKE called "high speed rail" and get back to COMMON SENSE!! California's governor's and other WOKE California leaders' PRIORITIES are completely SCREWED UP!!
In 1990s a super-Typhoon devastated Guam, and blew everything out to sea. _The Governor and the insurance writers banned wooden structures and house trailers._ All homes are cinderblock with steel doors, steel window covers and concrete roofs. I rode out a woopwoop typhoon with a candle, after the lights went out, kinda boring, so went to sleep as it roared across the island. In the morning we cut up and hauled off the trees in the road, the power came back around noon, in time to get to the grocery store. Have no sympathy for LA/FL. *There have been wild Santa Ana winds and wildfires recorded back to 1769.*
Well said. Like building on a flood plain as well.
So the dry fire hydrants were put there as decor?
In Australia we have fire prone residential areas and they have strict regulations about fire protection of buildings. There are fire proof claddings for building now. Japanese use burned wood for fire protection. That rusty steel Corten steel cladding is very good too. I have worked on buildings that have fire shutters facing the heavily wooded and fire prone areas. These have heat/thermal and smoke detectors which trigger the fire shutters to drop down. Obviously steel structure instead of timber will survive fires better.However these too have to be fire rated or fire protected. Thick Fibre Cement cladding has high fire rating. People have sprinkler system over their houses in the bush here. These need power generators that supply power to pump the water into these when the power network goes down during a fire. Also hemp products and hempcrete panels and cladding are fire proof too. Hemp is a wonderful eco crop and we should be growing it all over the place especially to replace timber use. We certainly have to rethink out home building on the planet. There are fire resistant plants to grow around homes to stop the encroachment of fires like succulents. Know gum trees are really lovely but they are a big fire risk. We well know about this in Australia with all our eucalyptus forests.
Treat me like an option
I will leave you like a choice
- Mother Nature
What the World is witnessing is science, physics, chemistry and nature in action. Humans are standing in the way. Humans are playing with the system by adding too much Co2 into the system and nature is replying.
It's not like we haven't been warned for DECADES. My whole lifetime, over 50 years.
50 years ago the warning was for the existential threat of an ice age 😂
@vansmoken4172 I remember a woman on Donahue say the holes in the ozone layer were caused by us sending rockets to the moon and punching holes in it 🤣
@@Valkron11 I think you need to look a little more deeply, friend. I think you will find that you are focused on the wrong thing. Human caused climate change has been on the scientific radar for over one hundred years, and the fact that we still are not doing anything to stop or reverse it is not going to sustain us. And there is nothing funny I can find in it.
@@vansmoken4172 You might want to watch a few more videos, or better yet, try reading a book.
@@Valkron11 And? What does that have to do with the fact that the planet is on fire due to human stupidity? Or are you just pointing out earlier stupidity?
Close your cable account now. Corporate Media does not care about poor people.
😂😂looks like Gaza after USA Bombs dropped in their neighbourhood 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What is cable?
@johnflynn110 Dishnetwork, DirectTV, Comcast. You must've just landed on Earth 🌎 from Uranus.
😂😂LOL!!!!!!!!!@@christmassnow1972
Don't forget Time Warner cable aka Spectrum. One of the very worst.
The billionaires decamp to their second and fourth homes.
Brah REALLY…
this isn’t just Malibu this is Pasadena, last time I talked to my Daughter she doesn’t have a 2nd Home. Keep U’r Damn Hate to yourself‼️
A yes, "class warfare" is what this is all about, right "Commie" !
True, and everyone else will pay tripled insurance premiums...
Anyone thought of the destruction of our atmosphere by all the bombing with our bombs.
But hey, the defense industry is flourishing
Are you sure missile makers have enough
Exactly!! All those bombs are killing the planet
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B-bu-ut COW FARTS!
exactly. a year of bombing doesn’t get swept under the rug.
“whatever happens on earth stays on earth.”
People in charge will prioritize greed and money over change
its in their "rational best interest" to not take interest in the world's survival
Our Man Trump is EXACTLY right! CA govt needs to invest in reducing or eliminating burnable material on the forest floors throughout areas that are populated, to help prevent these huge fires that have destroyed lives and homes throughout CA. They need to divert water from the north to the south via the California Aqueduct instead of letting it go into the Pacific Ocean!! They need to stop WASTING our tax dollars on foolish, stupid infrastructure systems like massive solar farms and the JOKE called "high speed rail" and get back to COMMON SENSE!! California's governor's and other WOKE California leaders' PRIORITIES are completely SCREWED UP!!
@@pacotaco1246 the insanity of the “logic” of capitalist accumulation
Is that why the LA mayor cut $17 million from the firefighters budget?
Now looking just a little like Gaza. At least aid can get in.
Why worry about Gaza? Do you have family there?
Gaza? What’s Gaza? 🤷🏻♂️
@@DubstepZeDI have concern for other nations. I donated when the Tsunami took lives in Indonesia, Sri Lanka. I don't have family in California, but care. I am human.
@@DubstepZeD WHAT A SOUL LESS REMARK
Should be a wake up but wont be. I live in FL. No hurricanes in my city in over 60 years but had 3 in three months last year.
I realise that California is not a MAGA stronghold....but one can't sense a giant wakeup call for the incoming turmoil the US is about to experience.
After this we’re all voting MAGA
@@Hermesborugerdian
No we are not.
@@Blue_Tambourine Rick Caruso warned about underfunded fire department but too bad he was running against a WOC who wins and further cuts the budget and leaves the fire hydrates empty in addition to inviting illegals into the city, one of whom committed the Kenneth fire arson which is currently burning my street. Now you tell me why I would vote for this cult of insanity?!
You should be. @@Blue_Tambourine
@@DubstepZeD no.
Here is a thought - why can’t the billionaire oligarchs giving $ to trump’s inauguration give $ to rebuild of LA and the victims!
It's thier money not yours
Hey, FEMA will give them $750 dollars just like the people got in Hawaii and North Carolina, stop your complaining.
@@glennhibben7757 It's a fiat currency backed by the 16th amendment. The game is monopoly and the rules are rigged.
Same reason they don't support other worthy causes. Money doesn't necessarily equate to higher intelligence. We've got lots of lower intelligence coming into power.
20 million dollar homes burnt down, they can afford to rebuild. This wont really hurt them so there is no incentive.
What’s sad is that Americans seem to blame justify and deny rather than get together as humans to find solutions and learn that it not us and them it’s all of us in this together
There were solutions. The inept people in charge decided not to use them.
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies People like you complain about anything the government does. You would not have supported emergency budget measures for the firefighters.
@@someonenotnoone Incorrect. "People like me" watch what people do and use facts to hold them accountable when they fail miserably. Especially when lives and property are lost in the process. Take off your rose colored glasses and see reality.
I would NOT have supported what they ACTUALLY did which was to take $17.6 million dollars from the firefighters budget in the first place! Common sense!
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies Wow, an actual fact! So you're saying the problem is government didn't spend enough money. Let's just be clear because just calling the government inept is exactly how you can get even less money for the government.
@@someonenotnoone Stop being obtuse. You can read and I'd suspect you can comprehend, too. Facts are facts. Go argue elsewhere.
More Palestinians died today in Gaza, than LA-ians died in LA County the last three days of poor forest management.
But the underlying problem is poor climate management.
They don'; and cannot connect the dots.
But this channel does not either, blaming it on climate change. These fires had zero to do with climate change. Looks like it was planned adn they just waited for the right wind speeds to kick in. Insurances were cancelled, water hydrants were not inspected or filled, no rain water collection facilities during the big rains the last two years and so on.
They needed to clear the area of all people to make room the the Olympic structures, later to be taken over by high tech AI companies.
The more you scream "Climate change" the worse things get in the environment - stop it already.
The more we focus on the impossible task of changing the global climate the more we miss the practical on-ground solutions that are proven to work through history
Sorry, but I worry about my own family first. I worry about my fellow Americans, my neighbors, my coworkers, Gaza? I have my own things to worry about.
Sorry. Billionaires will lose some pocket change so don’t expect improvement of the environment.
Elon must get tax cuts after all......... he is so impoverished .. but you can eat ash. B/c: MERICA.
You'll never have a billion dollars, so let it go. You could've bought BTC for $4.
Never trust corporate media
Mother nature is paying us back for all the extinctions and genocides.
That’s super dark. Please go outside.
What a fatuous remark.
Mother nature has nothing to do with this!!!
@@jamesmacleod9382 Like the way America treats the environment?
@@JackieCorey-hz9pu Nature is every where!
To many people, to little resources to support the numbers
Climate chage is definitely a big contributing factor, but it's definitely not the only one. Lack of funding, mismanagement, the hurricane force winds, and I'm sure many other factors.
Listen to Bernie, money spent on bombing Gaza, or money spent on the American people. Barb
Climate has changed since time began. This isn't climate change. This is bringing in the new world order, smart cities, AI. Protocols of Zion! Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars!! Read them.cant listen to the rest of this. This guy is probably a Jew!
Not really, California was always dry and always had fires. Its not even hot now! just 20*C. Main cause of devastation is mismanagement by leftist woke california government. They care more about pride month than about hiring firefighters.
"Billionaires should not exist" -- the most important quote came in the last 3 seconds.
Billionaires are completely out of touch with the working class ATLEAST they shouldn't be in government.
MAKE THE GOVERNMENT WORKING CLASS
A wake-up call to liberal and Democrat supporters: Wildfires have been a recurring issue in California. Have city and state leaders fixed it? I don’t think so. Despite being the highest-taxed state, California continues to run a budget deficit-so where is the money going?
Palisades looks just like Palestine...oh the irony.
Good one
And they did it to their own selves just like Gaza. 😵
They absolutely have to rebuild entire neighbourhoods to prep for worsening fires. And because it's changing so fast in such unpredictable ways, building practices will have to be revisited every few years.
We still have way too many young people in prisons it’s terrible. Most of these people need love, guidance and support
Yes amen
How many have you adopted?
You guys have so many things to worry about . Man too bad there is not a higher power, like a super God-like being that has control and is seeing all of this. And all you had to do was put your faith in him . Shucks
Billionaires in California should open their hearts not only understand what Palestinians suffer for almost a decade, but help them out
^ this is the mentality that started the arson that’s burning my street as I speak
You guys speak both sides of your mouth; on one hand you get angry when america butts into other contries business, and on the other you want us to provide aid USING SOMEONE ELSES MONEY to offer aide to our ally's sworn enemy. You guys are a piece of work.
Additionally, what real affect is just pouring money into a region that has been at war with eachother since forever actually going to accomplish?
We help our own first, just like you would do with your own family.
ZIONIST BILLIONAIRES SHOULD BE STOPPED.
Why are stupid people acting like these fires never happened and this time its arson. The fires this year are smaller than in the past. But they are always happening. The difference is that past wild fires happened in rural California and this year urban California is hit by fires.
Billionaires should not exist, agreed!
Climate wake up? I was born in San Diego. We’ve had these hot Santa Ana wind since I was a child. We’ve had fires burned through Monte Vista Ranch, which was basically open land from Fort Drive all the way to the border of Mexico. It wasn’t global warming. It was hot Santa Ana winds And dry brush because they didn’t get any water.
Los Angeles Mayor defunded the Fire Department
BEFORE you make a hateful, or sneering post, remember that people are DYING AND LIVES ARE BEING DEVASTATED!
@@liamfinch4129 Because of Liberal policies
@@JustinOldman-y4h You think that because you think climate change is a liberal policy
But they are rich 🤑 f them
The democrats' preferred self-image as the champions of the little guy, but that runs head-on into the democrats' reality. It is not the party of working people anymore. In fact, the democrat party hates working people. Working people like God, families, guns, and America, which makes them racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and probably fatist. What do democrats offer the working class? More lectures? More limits? More hardships? You can't have cars, you can't have steaks, and you certainly can't have a rifle. You can have subways full of homicidal hobos, cash giveaways to Ukrainians and Third World peasant invaders, and government employees trying to talk your son into becoming your daughter.
@@JustinOldman-y4h Can you explain how Trumps plan to pump water from the North will be a solution? So you take water from that area, deposit it into a desert , then watch it evaporate- then the North doesn't have enough water to sustain it's own geography. How is that a solution?
Sincerely hope that someone out there is going to help move the shelter animals from harm, which Karen Bass totally cut funds for!!!!!!!!
The same people blaming brush clearing are the same people who would complain about funding people for clearing the brush year round.
but it was necessary, right?
Absolutely, time-wasting hypocrites.
All they do is politicize these events while at the same time tell everyone that we can’t politicize school shootings when they happen because we need to think of the victims.
Palisades does some areas by goats yearly.
@@JavierFernandez-k9b You won't stop a fire in this tinder box, spread by massive winds, with any brush clearing. Climate change needs to be taken seriously, and funds and strategies to cope with those (now) inevitable disasters (that will keep getting worst) need to be appropriately distributed.... for one!
While the memes about wealthy climate change deniers losing their mcmansions to the warming globe are funny, know that most people losing everything to the firestorms are just regular working class people who need your help. If anyone finds any donation funds or mutual support groups for folks in the area please help in whatever ways you can!
So because they are rich means its an acceptable loss to you?
LA Mayor Karen Bass increased funding to police by $12.6M and decreased funding to the fire department by $17.5M.
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Decreased funding didn't start or fuel these fires. Once they start in conditions like these, no fire crew can stop them until the conditions improve.
Look at your numbers. What’s your point?
L.A.'s disaster isn't due to climate change; It is due to decades of massive negligence.
And she should be held accountable.
Looks like Gaza
God Bless Israel 🇮🇱
@@JustinOldman-y4hi hear the jewish community was particularly affected in this tragedy.
@@JustinOldman-y4h get lost bot!!!
God mad.
Like Gaza but without the murdered children.
Compare the aid to Hawaii, vs this one.
The environment, atmosphere and earth are disposable for higher corporate profits and C.E.O. salaries.
I bet your teacher gave you an A+ for that. You left out trans people disposable.
I've been a Los Angeles resident for decades. It is unfortunate that this report puts funding for fire fighters and for police at odds right at the outset. These are both public resources and both should be funded. What the newscasters are not being mindful of are funding choices that are 100% the result of the influence of private interests. California Governor Newsom recently proposed $750 million for "film subsidies." These are handouts of public funds directly into the pockets of private interests hiding behind the workers they are simultaneously starving through capital strike. Basically, it's a hostage situation, with studios being the hostage takers, workers being the hostages, and the tax-payer being the ransom payers. It is madness and cuts to the funding of public goods results in poor outcomes like these out of control fires.
He is trying to save the entertainment business which supports in part the tourism business
There is an argument that if Republicans were in charge they would have pushed for wildfire prevention but we know that politicians don't tend to put money towards prevention. Look at all of the infrastructure fails these past years. I lived thru Snowmageddon in TX where people including a 9 yr old boy froze to death in his bed...in the wealthiest nation in the world...in a state with its own power grid. TX is run by Republicans BTW...a governor and more. Um, You remember that one man who was caught on his way to Cancun..? So enough of the political red or blue argument from folks who want to do that. The local taxpayers should have fought tooth and nail for what they needed!! We have to stop trusting that the leaders are doing what they should be doing.
It's almost as if everyone is buying into some hairbrained idea that we live in a system built to ensure the bottom line is profit.
@@Merriwether-w8kread the cloward pivens strategy.
@@Merriwether-w8k here's the thing about that, though. A lot of the people living in those homes that have been destroyed are the same people who have created the problem of film incentives in the first place. And this might be a surprise to you, but incentives do not "save" the entertainment business; they just keep them in certain geographies over others. It's basically ransom money. They erode the tax base but deliver nothing that wouldn't have been there if the film incentive game had never started in the first place. It was a conscious decision to allow film incentives which was made by Nick Counter (AMPTP president at the time) and Tom Short (IATSE president at the time). It's just greed and the raiding of public funds by the people who need them the least.
My point is that this video pits one public good against another while ignoring the privatization of the tax-revenues, basically another form of trickle-up economics.
I think at this moment the people who live where the fire is happening will think about the Palestinians, Palestinian children, how cruelly Israel takes away homes, lives, limbs, parents of children from the Palestinians, this fire also takes away your homes, I sympathize with you, God grant that the world will finally have peace without pain, people, think about the Palestinians, it is much, much harder for them than you can imagine, bombs are dropped on them every day and they have no food, no medicine
OCT 7!!! Israel has every right to defend itself and make sure that NEVER happens again. They still have hostages! Where is THAT outrage? Those people who were murdered, brutalized etc were people, too. Outrageous comment.
I think they're going to be more focused on their own homes, friends, and families. I know you would if you were dealing with this..
@@LintheSkyWithDaisies Palestinians also have the right to defend themselves why do you think October 7th happened. Use your brain and do your research.
Will you go to another thread with your propaganda?!! Troll
October 7th 1200 people were slaughtered by WHO ???????*
It’s lack of policy that is preventive of wild fire.
The wealthiest fire departments dont PREVENT fires there dum dum. Fire departments are for containing fires already started.
@@rob_barriecharles2042 They didn't say "It's the lack of fire departments preventative of wild fire"
they said "It’s lack of >>POLICY
I don’t think people realize how much we’re polluting the environment simply by taking a flight, a cruise or even overconsumption. If you’re one who loves to travel or buy unnecessary stuff, please rethink your lifestyle . 🤷🏻♀️
Just stay home and eat microwave dinners, right? Nah, I’ll leave that to you
Research Geoengineering!!
@@Cj2024caexitexactly! While the rich have MULTIPLE huge homes and travel frequently! They furnish the huge homes and eat the best foods, fly on personal jets! Hello!!
No thanks
@@Cj2024caexitthere can be an in between.
🇺🇸♟♟♟♟🇮🇱🕎🦅it’s beginning to look like The Gaza Strip! Karma?
Its not the people you would want to receive that karma who are effected, which is the sad truth
I mean, some celebrity Zionists lost their homes, which I am quite amused about. But many more who lost their homes or shelters were impoverished and are also victims of the U.S. government's tyranny.
Karma for what? Most of the people who lost their homes aren’t responsible for that.
I have lived on the north end of Vancouver Island most of my 65 years one of the wettest places on earth 🌍. It does not rain here like it did in past .
so?
Everybody wants everybody just to go back to work. But we have to realize that when we do go back to work and we start to get this country moving again and needs to be in a green way. And we need to do it globally
Why do you guys never discuss the larger impact of industrial animal agriculture? It’s greater than fossil fuel
No it isn't, that's why Vegans keep banging their gums, to hide the actual fact that *Vegans are carbon volcanoes. Row-cropping is 100% dependent on fossil fuels* and teratogenic petrochemical pesticides and herbicides, the Real 6th Extinction.
If you aren't prepared for fires, you can't blame anything else for them. There was no water in the hydrants duh!!
All those celebrity homes. Those that stayed silent at the suffering of Palestinians by Israel using their own tax money. The prayer of the oppressed is powerful. Losing home, being kicked out of one’s own home is devastating isn’t.
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Yeah, I really don't care about the celebrities, as many of them are Zionists. Many of those celebrity goons don't need their second or third home in LA. I will offer my sympathies to those who are homeless or impoverished, though.
It’s like we are sleep walking into climate suicide. Will this horrific event be the tipping point of our social awareness of the climate crisis? And to finally act?
In the meantime I’m doing what I can to reduce my carbon footprint and hope others will do the same. Just donated to this channel as well. Thanks for covering this event as it should be covered, as another climate change related event.
Every event that happens on earth is a climate related event. Cutting the usage of fossil fuels is the worst strategy we can take if your primary goal is reducing human suffering. Our limited resources should be focused on preparing our infrastructure to withstand future climate disasters, not trying to cool the earth. What would be a better strategy for the people of California for combatting fires over the next 100 years? Going carbon neutral or redirecting ice melt into reservoirs as opposed to the Pacific Ocean?
In the garden light reflected in
Not leaving the house.
From dawn till late at night
making a new world of ourselves
around this life.
- Gary Snyder
@@cabanacaterer There is no proof made of AGW theory, nor is any proof possible, since natural biological and geological CO2 far exceeds humans. So CO2 will always keep going up, then you can blame anything for it. Long lines are getting longer every year!! Burgers are getting smaller every year!! Soon there will be lines everywhere, and nano-burgers!! *Magic CO2!*
I am not a climate change denier, but the major culprit of these fires is the over - development of land that is potentially inhospitable to human development, not climate change. The type of disaster that occurred in this region will happen whether climate change occurs or not. Notice how Mr. Vaillant did not talk about “climate change” in his open remarks, he instead spoke of the collision of human built environments with the natural environment. He did state that an area such as LA is “at the mercy of climate,” but this holds true for any and all human development at any time in history. It is not until Ms. Goodman’s rant about the lack of recognition of climate change in the mainstream media, does Mr. Vaillant start to bring in the subject of climate change. The rainfall amounts in this region are erratic and have been throughout recorded meteorological history. In fact the two previous winters, rainfall has been above average in the LA area. This year, there is a drought. I wish organizations like Democracy Now would focus their argument about climate change on events that are more applicable. Doing so would give more mainstream attention and honest evidence to the ongoing problem of climate change.
Thank you, for saying all I wanted to say!
So hot, dry, hurricane force winds are “just winter” then, right?
@@CowboyConan No they’re just THIS winter. Look at the last 1,000 or 10,0000 winters if you want to do any kind of climate studies. We all want to avoid disasters like this. The views of Democracy Now will not help mitigate.
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Not burning fossil fuels would though
@@CowboyConanok - no more fossil fuels- no more airplanes, no more cars. Please, I do not wish to start a debate with a hopeless idealist
The things that obviously need to be done will not be done.
No, the fires in Hawaii were the wakeup call. Unfortunately it takes expensive properties being destroyed for the issue to get any real attention. I don't feel sorry for the fabulously rich losing their homes. Maybe they will move away and lower the property prices for everyone else.
These types of fires literally happen every year in California.
Keep driving your cars, hypocrites!
Please people, do your DEW diligence in understanding this disaster
What about all the billions of subsidies that go to Ukraine?
They are issued as LOANS but then fintech experts pointed out Ukraine had no way to pay them back, so Biden started calling them 'grants'. He'd a dog faced poo.
What about what about what about what about what about what about
It's not climate change that caused this, it's divine chastisment for the Us burning ga za.
The Kamchatka volcanoes in the 1980s changed the climate of California. In 2004 I landscaped an acre with DG and rocks and California low water native plants. I watched pines around dry up and removed them. I cut the scrub down to one inch ( clearing brush) yearly in North San Diego. I was always afraid of fire. I sold the home after 16 years with heartbreak over leaving such beauty. Now in North LA and woke up one morning to realize these winds make my current home vulnerable. This community has no gas and everyone has solar.
I do not blame the Governor for the changing California climate. We are becoming a desert.
And one more thing about the fire prevention. Unless you have lived in L.A. you have no idea how much vegetation there is all over. That is why it looks so beautiful. No way that firefighters would have cleared everything in Will Rogers State Park, Topanga, Runyon, Laurel and Coldwater Canyons, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Los Feliz & Griffith Park and then over in AltaDena, Pasadena and La Canada. That wasnt going to happen regardless of who was in charge. The locals should have demanded that their areas be taken care of and that the funds be made available. But at the end of the day it is a tragic freak circumstance that the Santa Ana winds were blowing when the fires started.
There are areas that should never have been built in. Growing up in LA we learn about chaparral and how nature designed it to burn hot and fast to open its seeds. In addition to making BIG changes to reduce the climate changes scientists have been warning about for decades, we also need to look at urban planning and work with and respect nature instead of trying to dominate or subdue it. The population of LA, in this context, is unsustainable.
EASILY could have been maintained.
It's not true that Karen Bass cut the fire department budget. It was an accounting issue, that 2% was in a fund, available to the department. Not that I'm defending other decisions she's made on the issue, but this accusation that she gave money from fire to police is wrong.
Prisoners were not moved during the floods of the last major hurricane... Why would their safety be different with fire bro?
excellent interview. Condolences too the families that lost loved ones .
Thank you! The staus quo approach of climate crisis denialism will increase the frequency of wild fires, hurricanes, etc. How can we deal with this without global cooperation?
Horrible but so many channels owned by the same person will profit .
Thank you so much for the fact you are not only mentioning, but concentrating on the climate crisis. Most news, even the respectable sources, are barely mentioning it, let alone centering around it.
'.....climate wake-up call....' 🤣😂🤣
Try forest mismanagement.
Not being prepared for dry weather and fires has nothing to do with climate change. Nothing.
5:55 what does climate change has to do with man-made fire?
What does man-made climate change have to do with man-made fire?
What does manufactured climate change have to do with a man-made fire.@@GoogleVideoMan
Now we see the relationship between overfunding police departments and our ability to adequately protect citizens from climate disasters. Maybe defunding the police to fund other departments and agencies is not a bad idea.
Payback time after what evil the US had done to so many countries, including the stolen Hawaii?! 😢
Why is a "revenge" somehow "okay". If you hate Americans, I hope you live elsewhere.
The ones suffering from this are not the wicked oligarchs and dictators, but are the working class and poor. I understand the bitter feelings toward the U.S., but no one should wish this upon people just trying to get by in this messed up nation.
Yes!💪💪
It's the government, not the people! Let's get that one straight.
@hightower6645 The west and the like are evil warmongers because they worship the evil man-made God of Adam/Eve/Abraham/Moses/Jesus that never even existed in history...
Nominate John V. as leader of a high level department in government for inacting resolutions to climate change
Rebuild should include fire suppression water tanks for every property. Catchment tanks would make a huge difference.
The Governor needs to keep the. Reservoirs FULL
No money... All in weapons n wars😂
A billion dollars is 1000 million dollars! Who would ever need this much money?!
Full money for war but not for water
Apples and oranges. Does your brain still work?
WE MUST SUE THE WAR MONGERS.
On a personal level, I’m glad I’m not in LA because, as someone with asthma, I would be fighting to breathe. Few people are talking about the health impacts of the fires and how they are going to hurt people with disabilities, such as heart disease, asthma and COPD, and those with multiple health issues. Not to mention that the US has the worst healthcare system in the developed world, which will become overloaded with patients in the area, as this disaster will play out in the near and distant future. Combined this with the climate disaster unfolding, and you have nothing short of a catastrophic breakdown of the system. What’s really sicking is that this is all part of how late stage capitalism is functioning.
THE SOULS OF THE BABIES 👶 OF GAZA-PALESTINIAN ARE, DEMANDING JUSTICE ⚖️!!
Most of the people suffering in the fires are not the people who are funneling millions into Lockheed Martin and other weapons industries responsible for imperialism and genocide. There's a lot of working class people in that mix who have sent the little income they make in this stupid country over to the families struggling in Gaza. I can understand the bitter feelings you feel toward the U.S., but not every American is a cold-hearted husk like Netanyahu.
This is why I suspect this vengeance mentality is behind these arsons in our neighborhoods
@@justicia_azul TRUE
So why can’t your tech billionaires focus on developing fire proof and hurricane proof building materials for homes instead of working on conquering outer space?
This isn’t about climate change, it’s about neglect of known problems. Santa Anna winds are not anything new. Every tree looks green to me
I grew up in Southern California and so I learned right away what the santa ana winds were and what they could do. They were warm winds. Now they are faster and hotter. Coupled with persistent drought and you have what you now are seeing.
Feel so sorry for all affected, my prayers are with you. Sorry your government let you down
The Democratic Party has ruined California.
Except the trumpers this is exactly what they voted for. Too bad they ruin everyone's lives not just their own.
Don't say "sorry your government let you down" if you aren't willing to support the funding that government needs to not let people down.
In South America, we are currently facing extreme drought season and heat/ very high temperatures, resulting in 90 days of blackouts and forest fires , this all documented in the news. The UN reported these events are caused by the current climate emergency and will ocurr more frequently worldwide. The Amazon river is drying up.
In my country we voted in a referendum, after 10 years of legal fights and protests, to protect our rivers, flora and fauna in our Amazon region, others countries should do the same. We are one!
Would be really nice to know actual starts, where and how the fires are started, as I feel a lot are arson or human error.
A big fat expensive Cigar or cigarette thrown out of a petrol driven car . People camping out yet don't make sure bonfires are put out .
Yeah, the 100mph winds have nothing to do with it. Fires will start in any number of ways, the conditions grow them.
The Santa Ana winds were blowing through at 80-90 mph in the mountain passes and through the valleys. All it takes is for a powerline to strain and cause a single arc of electricity. Or worse, cause a downed power line. It has happened before. PG&E paid a 55 million dollar settlement in 2022 for 2 wildfires that occurred in 2018
I'm guessing the hurricane force winds and power lines mixed with potential irresponsible fires. Hard to say though until it gets put out. Even a single cigarette butt can do some damage.
If no one else is gonna ask, I will. What was she incarcerated for?
Thank Nestle and the Wonderful company
“The biggest cars we can drive…” Why are car manufacturers still making these hugh SUVs? They are everywhere around the world, how insane! We know why people purchase them… but they are in denial… we are our worst enemy.
😮😮It Should Be A Wake Up For The LA MAYOR too..😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢😢
The End is near.
We need ZERO POINT ENERGY.
"I AM THE SCIENCE!" OK, Tony.
Climate disasters covered as isolated incidents - there really are NO isolated incidents. Everything that happens, happens within a dense context of factors…
So sorry for everyone's losses.....
Climate is dictated by the sun. The better question is how do we adapt.
I said this before and I'll say it again. You can take 1 billionaire and have them give 330 million to 330 million people in the United States of America. And you still wouldn't fix the problems this country has.
A few years back had a speaker on your show this lady talk about a meeting she had a talk with oil producers climate change. She had a talk with the oil industry. They ask the speaker where can they go to live after they destroy this country.
I keep reading in comments about neglect and no brush cleaning. I’ll look this up, but why are firefighters not brush clearing if that is what helps? Does it really help? If so, how come they’re not prioritizing? I apologize for my ignorance but these are the questions on my mind while watching this.
@haveafitday I actually hope you do look it up
I have property & first thing I did was clear the brush
PRIORITIZING.... that is the key word - those in charge decided what to fund - ask yourself where your tax dollars are going - there's the answer.
Environmentalist sue to prevent habitat destruction and Hollywood elites like their foliage for privacy
California did more prescribed burns than ever last year. Due to budget constraints *AND* existing fires taking up firefighters time, there was a pause on controlled burns started in October. People like JustinOldman would fight to stop that budget increase *AND* blame the government for the fires.
Mismanagement, and a lot of the most vocal climate folks unfortunately don't really believe in it either. Hell, I've done quite a bit of it here in Oregon as a kid (I went to a youth corps for awhile).
Is water Nationalised in Scotland?
Yes, it truly does. Scottish Water is publicly owned. What is the water Act in Scotland? This act lists most of the powers and duties associated with supplying drinking water in Scotland. Water authorities (now Scottish Water) must supply wholesome water for domestic purposes. It is a criminal offence to supply water unfit for human consumption.
Yeah, and regular removal of underbrush would help, too!
They do controlled burns to get rid of excess fuel for the real fires to burn
@Donald-my3oo Not nearly enough, as has been documented. There were years of accumulated dead Chaparral scrub.
The irony of the highest state taxes, mandating all sorts of “environmental rules, regulations, carbon tax relating to climate change etc”…. Sending up billions of tons of carbon from THEIR fires.
No water and no brush clearing for decades, plus neglect and indifference, are what led to this preventable tragedy.
And rather than desalinization plants irrigating these woods where the fires start, for decades they've been doused with densely salinated ocean water which has dessicated these woods with their salt.
These salted woods were mere tinder that rapidly extend the scope of these fires faster & farther every year.
These latest fires were inevitable. 😢😭
Also they basically gave a huge chunk of the firefighters budget to the police.
Too many people on the planet. They have destroyed the earth. No sympathy. Humans have stolen animal habitats, made animals homeless and more. Good riddance to humans. SAVE THE ANIMALS. IT IS THEIR PLANET TOO.
Flooding in florida still cause damage they don't learn texas can't handle a winter or a fire 😂
Absolute nonsense, you have to stop listening to AM radio.