stuck out to me today because the former manager of the LA Water and Power Department said

that the system has never been designed to fight a wildfire like this. But why would that be?

Like haven't we known for quite some time, California is at very high risk for wildfires?

Yes, absolutely.

We've known that California in general is prone to wildfires and that some urban areas

will face wildfires, but I don't think, frankly, that we as a society have been willing

to pay for the infrastructure that would be needed, especially on the water side,

but also on the power side and the firefighter side to address fires of this magnitude,

and we're pretty reactionary.

And it would cost, again, I don't have exact numbers, but multiple times what we pay now for all those services

to have stopped these fires in their tracks.

And maybe we're going there in the future.

Maybe that's what we'll do.

But to date, that just hasn't been expected.

And we have trouble having, you know, people are concerned about what they pay for water and power now.

So I think it's largely a question of societal will and also a question of, you know, whether we can afford this infrastructure in certain areas, whether these areas are defensible from fires like this.

This is my worst nightmare, but it's actually not because the planet is still getting hotter is the problem.

And, you know, I sort of did see this coming because Los Angeles, Southern California,

was getting hotter and drier and more fiery.

And there were smoke events.

There was one fire that caught my family in a smoke cloud for weeks and weeks.

But it's still getting hotter and it's still, places like this are still getting drier and floods

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