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It's not directed energy weapons, folks. It's not climate change. It's fire suppression culture where these frequent controlled fires and fire management and using fire in a responsible way to clear out deadwood and so forth.

That's all been gotten rid of. Remember those smoky the bear campaigns. That's all contributing to the intensity of wildfires that we're seeing today.

And it's just a matter of time before all of this latent energy in forests all over the world, and particularly here in North America, that someone decides to light the fuse that will cause such a catastrophic wildfire that the world has never seen.

You could have an entire city going up. How long would it take for a large metropolitan center once a wildfire takes hold in his uncontrollable at this point?

We're seeing a wall of fire hundreds of feet high, and it starts descending on a city. How long would it take for a major metropolitan center to go up in flames at?

Not very long. That's a problem. People can check with their local governments and whatever and people with disabilities they have, and you can search the internet on the cities, how vulnerable they are.

And if they're vulnerable, they need to get out there and start lobbying their leaders, the political leaders, whatever, to get the money to get these prescribed fire buffers put in, and also hard and homes.

Now, very brown in the legislature in California authorized the billion dollars over five years, but that's just a drop in a bucket to do with these things.

It's going to take a lot more than that. It's going to take 100 billion, probably more over 10, 15, 20 years or even longer, to get these ecosystems back into natural balance again.

First, you've got to deal with wildfire problems, so you've got to deal with wildfire medication. This means you've got to get the debris out of these forts very carefully, because once you have a lot of debris, you can get away from it very quickly.

And so it's not easy to burn the first time, and also you can get what we call buff fires around the base of the tree, the fire can go through the pool, and you don't think you've earned any trees.

With that buff, it starts burning a bit debris that comes from the bark, pulling down around the base of the tree, it starts burning like a fuse, and it'll girdle your trees, and a year or two later you'll have a bunch of dead trees.

So you've got to, it's a very delicate process, and it takes a lot of skill to remove these huge accumulations of fuel, but it's got to be done, and it's going to be expensive, and people have to pay a lot of money for it.

It's a lot better to do that now than to pay later.

Then you're going to run headlong into the environmentalists who are saying we can't have all of these controlled fires all over North America to clear up this dead brush, because you're going to contribute to greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide, and so forth.

I don't know how you're going to fight these people, that it's become a religion.

People get a little smoke in the city because there's so the first, you know, here down the South-East United States, it pops in with smoke.

People are used to it. It's no big deal.

In the West-East United States, they get a little smoke, or they get some ashes in their swimming pool, or whatever, and they get upset, and they talk to the politicians, and they make prescribed burning very difficult.

You've got the regulatory hurdles that are in place, and you've got the environmentalists who have been propaganda.

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