The Los Angeles Fires: Is Smelt More Important than Humans?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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If California Governor Gavin Newsom sincerely believes climate change is an existential threat, why wasn’t his state better prepared to combat a fire he claims was started by climate change? Daniel Turner of PowerTheFuture.com joins Michele to talk about where green initiatives have undermined public safety. We ask the question, “Is smelt more important than human lives?”
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| 0:00.0 | I battle the environmental left, which hides behind this shield of, I just care about the Earth. |
| 0:05.4 | I just care about the planet. |
| 0:06.7 | No, you are putting in place ideas that are bringing about death, destruction, misery across the board. |
| 0:12.9 | The Lahaina fires of Hawaii 18 months ago had the same start, right? |
| 0:17.9 | You're not allowed to cut down grass in these areas because we have to get back to |
| 0:21.4 | nature. Well, you know what? When high grass is left unattended in the city of Maui because you |
| 0:26.9 | think you're being natural, it catches on fire. One house has been rebuilt since then, 18 months. |
| 0:33.4 | When people say what's the future of California, it's been 18 months in Hawaii, one house has been rebuilt. |
| 0:39.5 | Every other house is caught up in litigation, permitting, environmental. |
| 0:44.6 | That, sadly, is going to be California's future. |
| 0:47.4 | And it's going to be so infuriating to watch and guaranteed it's going to happen because that's the environmental left. |
| 0:54.4 | Mysentthropic. |
| 1:01.6 | Daniel Turner is with Power of the Future and we're going to talk about the fires in Southern |
| 1:06.1 | California. |
| 1:06.7 | This is a big topic. |
| 1:08.1 | Most of you know that's my hometown. |
| 1:09.7 | I was born, raised, educated on the West Coast, all in California. And I know the circumstances out there, but never have we seen anything like this. Had a couple of actresses over the weekend try to tell us that the only reason we're trying to hold Karen Bass accountable is because she's black. No, that's not true. That's not true at all. |
| 1:30.2 | There's a lot of blame to go around and we're pointing just as much of it at Gavin Newsom, |
| 1:35.0 | the governor. Who is not black? You may have noticed. So I'm just so tired of people doing that with |
| 1:41.1 | this stuff. Regardless, Daniel Turner is with power of the future, |
| 1:44.7 | and he knows a lot about the environmental concerns out in California, about maybe, you know, |
| 1:51.8 | the thinking behind not having these reservoirs filled, all of this. Lots to chew on, lots to get to |
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