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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1259 - David Wallace-Wells

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Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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David Wallace-Wells is Deputy editor and climate columnist for New York magazine. His book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4, 2. 2. 1.

0:07.0

2. 1. David. So, first of all, thanks for doing this.

0:15.0

Oh, my pleasure.

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Really excited.

0:17.0

How much trouble are we in?

0:18.0

Legitimately.

0:19.0

I mean, it's pretty bad already and it's going to get, I think, worse so it's not bad right now right here it's

0:25.7

raining it seems nice out the hill I mean how long ago were the fires right right

0:29.9

I got evacuated this October yeah it was, but in all fairness I've been

0:34.8

evacuated three times over the past 20 years. Yeah, I know the fires.

0:38.2

California fires are kind of interesting in that they both seem like it's like the future of the apocalypse they're here but also

0:44.6

it's so familiar from like decades of wildfires but you know there are scientific

0:50.2

estimates that say that they're going to get by the end of the century 64 times worse.

0:54.4

What?

0:55.8

Yeah, I think that number is a little high because that would mean more than half of California burning every year.

1:00.4

But I mean, it's going to get get yeah, it'll get it'll get crazy and there's no way to avoid any of this

1:06.5

Wildfire stuff well I mean you know if we don't raise the temperature of the planet then but is is that the only thing that's causing wildfire I mean like obviously if the temperature raises

1:17.2

There's more brown dry leaves and grass and stuff like that but yeah, there's that there's a lot of preventative stuff you can do I mean not building in certain areas like I mean it used to be you know the Indians who lived here before the white people came

1:31.2

did a lot of controlled burning, they like lived among fires and I think that's like a probably

1:36.5

more responsible way to be, but we've now built up the whole state so that there are all these

1:40.5

homes that we don't want to burn, there are all these properties we don't want to burn and when you

1:45.0

when you like restrict the ability of natural wildfires to burn that means that

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