THERE is not much that has me turning to the television and the BBC news, but the Los Angeles fire catastrophe is one of those events. Like most normal people I avoid the mainstream broadcast media but neither the papers nor Twitter can really convey the ferocity and devastation of the inferno that is engulfing much of LA. It is not an exaggeration to say that they really are scenes from the apocalypse.
The problem, however, with the MSM is that everything is blamed on climate change. If there is frost on the ground in Ireland, it triggers a mass panic for toilet rolls and bread, and of course the schools slam their doors shut at the first sight of ice. We allegedly lived through some kind of ‘weather crisis’ last week although all was fine down my way.
Obviously according to the MSM the wildfires in LA are all down to climate change. The fact that nothing works, as Mark Steyn always says, and that California has been ground zero for the most insane woke-DEI policies for decades, has nothing to do with it. Drug-taking and shoplifting, to name just two crimes, have been essentially legalised in parts of California. The streets have been handed over to homeless people, making life hell for the poor and minority law-abiding citizens. These crazy policies have been standard operating procedure there for years.
We know by now that the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, was on a trip to Ghana as the blaze devoured her city. That fact alone sums it up.
The warning phrase ‘go woke, go broke’ needs an update: adopt woke policies and you are in serious danger of losing everything as your house and neighbourhood are destroyed in a wildfire and you can do nothing as for some reason the hydrants are dry.
Do not mistake this for some sort of sick ‘I told you so’ on the homeless and devastated residents of LA. It isn’t. But it does demonstrate that if you sacrifice plain common sense (for example, we should do everything we can to get water in the fire hydrants) to crazy woke ideas, you run the risk of being personally damaged by such policies.
I watched the great Victor Davis Hanson explain just how bad things are over there. He is a resident of California and described the tragedy as ‘a DEI Green New Deal Disaster, something out of Dante’s Inferno’.
It is eight minutes of reality if you have time to watch it. (Do please note the YouTube disclaimer – ‘United Nations: Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.’)
