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Turns out that Government bungling is far more dangerous to the planet.

Los Angelenos discovered last week that fires don’t care about “cultural competency”.

They learned that flames don’t pay any attention to “implicit bias”.

And they realised, all too late, that natural disasters are undeterred by a “diverse and inclusive workforce”.

As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, forcing Hollywood stars to flee for their lives, there are two emerging theories as to how things got so bad.

The scientists amongst us — I count myself as one — have accurately assessed that these fires are a result of poor land supervision, poor water management, an underfunded and ill equipped fire department, wind, and an ignition source that was likely human in origin.

The non-scientists believe, with religious zealotry befitting members of a doomsday cult, that the devastating fires are due to climate change.

New Normal?

Our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said of the US fires:

“This is not a normal event. But more and more we are seeing a pattern where there is a new normal of more extreme weather events and more intensity to them.”

Greens Senator for South Australia Barbara Pocock tweeted:

“Winter in America. Malibu is on fire. Message to the big parties: stop authorising new fossil fuel projects — and burning down our kids’ future.”

Ah yes, climate change.

That global phenomenon which ensured LA’s water reserves ran out before the fires would be brought under control.

Residents were reduced to shovelling dirt in order to douse flames after the hoses they were holding literally ran dry.

Firefighters who arrived to save houses were left with nothing to do as the fire hydrants they hooked hoses to coughed and spluttered with nothing to give.

But wait a second. That wasn’t climate change, Prime Minister. That was Woketard Governor Gavin Newsom, who ignored calls to pump more water to Southern California to boost supplies.

Doing so would have endangered a tiny fish that had already been declared functionally extinct.

And so Newsom preferred the welfare of the smelt fish to the safety of people he was elected to protect.

Fires like that in LA will only become the new normal if citizens keep voting for blithering idiots.

And it wasn’t climate change that caused the undergrowth around the famous Hollywood Hills and in the Palisades to go unchecked.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could have ensured there was only limited fuel around the neighbourhoods she was elected to protect.

But instead she pandered to so-called environmentalists and left the undergrowth in place. That same undergrowth is now an enormous fuel source, powering an apocalyptic blaze.

Priorities

Climate change didn’t send Mayor Bass to be in Ghana this week, either.

Despite warnings that LA could be imperilled by fires, Bass went on a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa for the inauguration of Ghana’s new president.

When asked by reporters what she had to say upon arriving home to find her city on fire, she simply refused to speak.

In fairness, what could she say?

Oh, I know. Climate change!

Yes. It was climate change what done it!

When she finally gave a press conference, it was about as helpful as flatscreens in a submarine.

“If you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter are available. All of this can be found at (URL).”

Huh?

And then she added:

“This firestorm is the big one.”

Okay.

Climate change didn’t cause Mayor Karen Bass to go full Joe Biden.

So, whilst always being blamed, poor old climate change had nothing to do with the catastrophic events of last week.

After all, climate change didn’t cut the fire department’s budget by $17.6m in order to divert funds to help the homeless.

No. That was the work of Mayor Bass. In fact, she had wanted to cut the fire department’s budget by $23m!

And here’s the kicker: most of the $16m diverted from the Los Angeles Fire Department — to help those made homeless by a housing shortage brought on by the city’s embrace of illegal immigrants — was never spent!

Meanwhile, newly minted LA Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley — the first woman to hold the role and a proud lesbian — spent the past two years working a three-year plan to hire more gay staff.

Turns out you can never have too many lesbians holding a hose.

Crowley’s LA Fire Department bio reads:

‘Creating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities are Chief Crowley’s priorities.’

Or — and this is just me spitballing — she could have prioritised making sure Southern California’s water reservoirs were full. I guess she just forgot with all that diversity stuff she was doing.

Oh well.

I feel sorry for climate change sometimes. It gets such a bad rap. Poor old climate change is blamed for all the world’s ills when, on closer examination, government bungling, ineptitude and insistence on DEI principles are far more dangerous to the planet.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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