Victor Davis Hanson: California's Catastrophic Wildfires Are ‘A DEI, Green New Deal Disaster’

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

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In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson, author of “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation,” provides an analysis of California's wildfire management and policy failures under Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Hanson discusses the mismanagement of resources, lack of effective forest management, and prioritization of diversity and inclusion over merit in firefighting efforts. He labels the situation as a “systems breakdown” and warns of the larger implications for California's future. The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://www.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	So I would characterize it as a DEI, Green New Deal, Hyvage, and Bomb. It's something out of Dante's infernal.
0:38.8	When you look at the people in charge, Gavin Newsom flew in to sort of do these performance
0:44.3	aren't stunts.
0:59.7	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
1:05.4	I'm here in California. I've been a lifelong resident in the state, fifth generation to live in the same house.
1:11.6	I had a house in the Sierra, and it would almost burn down three years ago during the Aspen fire. And I'm speaking on the evening when you've all heard about the disastrous fire in Los Angeles,
1:17.6	as I'm speaking on a Wednesday night, there's been 15,000 acres, 1,000 structures destroyed. Nobody knows how many people are killed or missing.
1:32.1	And how do we characterize this? Everybody's talking about the Santa Ana winds, climate change.
1:39.1	I mean everybody that people in power, but it was preventable. And once it started this fire, it could have been
1:48.3	aswage. You could have had it lessened that the severity didn't have to be as catastrophic.
1:54.1	So I would characterize it as a DEI Green New Deal, Hyvigin bomb. It's something out of Dante's infernal. And what I mean by
2:05.3	that is it's a system's breakdown, a civilizational collapse. When you look at the people in
2:11.8	charge, Gavin Newsom flew in to sort of do these performance aren't stunts.
2:18.5	But he has systematically ensured that water out of the Sacramento River and the watershed
2:25.4	of Northern California would go out to the sea rather than into the aqueduct.
2:30.3	So Los Angeles didn't have sufficient amounts of water.
2:33.7	He bragged not very long ago that he blew up four dams on the Klamath River.
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