L.A. Fires: The Cost and the Climate

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In Los Angeles, the fires rage on, with damage estimates so high they almost defy belief. But perhaps the L.A. fires truly will cause as much destruction as nearly every major disaster worldwide last year. We’ll explore which aspects of the damage can be attributed to climate change and which cannot. Plus, we’re joined by John Kay, Oxford professor, Financial Times columnist, and author of The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong. We discuss the assassination of a healthcare executive and reflect on a time when the pharmaceutical industry was one of the most respected sectors in the world. SUBSCRIBE We offer premium subscriptions, including an AD-FREE version of the show and options for bonus content. The Gist is produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] Subscribe to The Gist’s YouTube Page Follow Mike’s Substack > Pesca Profundities To advertise on the show, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Thursday, January 23rd, I will be conducting a panel discussion on free speech in America at the Liberty Museum.
0:08.9	What a fine museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0:11.7	Join us.
0:12.3	We will have a panel of free speech experts tackling the most pressing challenges and emerging threats to open dialogue in the United States.
0:20.2	The boundaries of speech and expression are being tested like never before.
0:25.1	We will discuss politics.
0:26.7	We will discuss Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to use fact-checking.
0:30.3	We will discuss misinformation, disinformation, and disinformation over-disinformation.
0:34.6	Tickets, $25 to the general public.
0:37.3	A representative from Penn America,
0:39.2	fire, and the ACLU will each be there. I'll be moderating National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia,
0:45.6	PA, Thursday, the 23rd.
0:58.1	It's Monday, January 13th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions. It's Monday, January 13th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:58.9	It's the gist.
1:00.1	I'm Mike Peska.
1:05.9	When the climate is warmer, as it is, droughts are more likely, which is the case in Los Angeles.
1:08.2	It hasn't really rained there in months and months.
1:11.9	A third of an inch of rain since May, not even a third.
1:17.8	Drought leads to dead plants, dead plants and vegetation become kindling. This I get. On the other hand, there have been wildfires in Los Angeles since before there was a Los Angeles.
1:22.6	And now, the area that is Los Angeles is so built up that the monetary damage from a poorly maintained
1:29.7	physical landscape will be enormous.
1:32.0	So to say that these fires were caused by climate change, well, the climate has changed.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Pesca, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Pesca and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.