 wildfires. California's burning. And I'm in California, so you should know. Fires just starting now in the LA that looked pretty brutal. Last week in the week before that, there were massive fires in Northern California. It's, you know, the sky was, the soot in the sky, much worse than Beijing. It's worst polluted day, much worse than California's pollution from automobiles than any other source has ever been. You know, the fires in California are truly horrific, destroying property. Of course, I guess the left doesn't care about property, destroying property, but destroying people's health. It's in the air. Now, this is the exercise that John Cochran wants you to consider. Imagine that these fires all happened on private property. Let's imagine a world in which Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg owned thousands of acres in Northern California, thousands of acres that they did not tend to, that they did not do anything to, to prevent fires, for example, that they just left wild. And imagine, imagine that those fires had been set by lightning or whatever. And that they were now polluting the air of Californians, destroying property, destroying the quality of life. Imagine what the response would have been of everybody. I mean, there would be massive condemnation. There would have been studies to determine why this was happening. There would have been efforts to force them to more responsibly take care of their land or just nationalize it and take it away from them. But none of that is happening. Because the land is owned by the state of California. None of that is happening. Even though these fires are preventable, these fires happen in land that has never been, that has not been cleared for years and years and years. Land where there is no fuel for the fire, just a masses, vast areas that are just ready to go up in flames. And where the government does nothing to clear them, because environmentalists don't believe in touching even a piece of wood on the ground. Instead of that, the fires are blamed, the global warming. And to prevent the fires, California is building a high speed train that's subsidized by taxpayers that will reduce California's contribution to carbon by 0.1%. And we'll make, let's assume, we'll make the climate less warm instead of going up 3 degrees that will go up 2.99999 degrees. And that they will need to pay for. But to clear the forest, no, can't do that. I mean, if global warming is real, if the temperatures are going up, if we can expect more fires in the future, then shouldn't we be investing in clearing the forest? Shouldn't we investing in more firemen? Shouldn't we be investing in more helicopters and planes, more ways in which to stop the fires, mitigate the fires? Shouldn't we be investing all that money that's going to cause a stupid train, put that into equipment to stop the fires? If we really cared, we know that even if we adopt AOC's total Green New Deal, even if every country in the world adopted a Green New Deal, according to the scientists, those that the left believes in, that would have a minimal impact on climate change. So instead of doing all that, why not take the money and deal with the consequence of climate change? For example, fires. Let's start reducing the probability of fires by controlled burns, by cleaning the forest floor, by investing heavily in fire equipment. But no. The left wants none of that. Because the left doesn't care of California burns. The left indeed doesn't care if the quality of life in California gets reduced, because then the left wants people to move out. They want people to stop living in rural California. They want to huddle a lot of us into cities. Of course, nobody can afford to live in the cities. That's a different story. The left doesn't want better infrastructure. The left doesn't want us to control fires better. The left wants to watch it burn, like they do in Portland. But just on a grander scale. It's truly, truly stunning that they just are letting these fires burn, blaming climate change, and doing nothing, nothing to try to prevent it. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought. All right. Before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. 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