Reaping the literal whirlwind
Be careful what you wish for and campaign for and talk nonsense for, eh James Woods?
God at Letters from God has the details:
James Woods, a man who hath spent his years spouting MAGA rhetoric and raging against reality, a man who blocked God back when it was still Twitter, now tragically reaps the literal whirlwind of his own climate change denial.
His house burned up. It’s gone.
God continues:
His house is no more, consumed by a climate change-boosted wildfire. It wasn’t a deep state plot. There were no Democrat-controlled weather machines and no space lasers.
And yet, instead of reflecting on climate change or the insane winds that caused this wildfire, he immediately chose to lash out at Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and—of course—”empty water reservoirs.”
But lo, the truth cometh: the reservoirs weren’t empty before the fires started. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power filled them in preparation for the fire season. The problem wasn’t the liberal boogeymen James rails against—it was the sheer scale of the firefighting effort, which drained the reservoirs faster than they could be replenished. Not that James cares for such details; he’s too busy raging to care about the facts.
I’m gobsmacked by all these people astonished that the water ran out. Do they think it’s magic? There’s only so much water that can be stored, so when there are multiple enormous raging fires dotted all over a neighborhood the water is going to run out. It’s not a plot, it’s not Democrats, it’s not Biden, it’s not even Trump, it’s just the nature of the disaster.
There are water towers on the tops of hills all over Seattle, and they’re big, but they’re not infinite. They can’t be infinite. Neither can the water inside them.
When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say, “God is punishing them.” When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say, “Democrats control weather machines.”
It must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
Thou shalt stop blaming everyone else and start seeing the truth: climate change is real, and it doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.
Climate change is not divine punishment, nor is it a liberal plot. It is the result of greed, inaction, and denial. And until humans get their shit together, the planet is going to continue to be pissed off.
Again: Los Angeles is in a desert. It’s vulnerable to drought and wild fires.
Unfortunately, I think they do. They’ve heard that the Earth is mostly water. They’ve turned on the faucet and had it give them water all their lives. It never occurs to them that (1) a lot of that water is not usable; and (2) the only reason the faucet gave them water is because the government (which they hate) made sure it did.
In fact, government actions enabled all these people to live in the desert. They’ve protected them for decades from their folly. That was a folly of the government, though it might perhaps be a correct understanding of the social contract. California has been getting their water dirt cheap forever (to be fair, so have most of us). The Colorado River is overdrawn, aquifers are dropping, even the Mississippi is overdrawn, and that river is HUGE. We’ve been living forever like water is magic. Now climate change is pulling back the curtain, and we’re going to see that the wizard is just a barely competent fool.
I just discovered this afternoon that PBS did a series on Cadillac Desert years ago. Just watched some; it’s pretty good.
I may have to look that up; I’ve read the book.
Astonishment that the water ran out reminds me of something I heard on the radio about the Titanic having insufficient lifeboats for the passengers and crew: it wasn’t recklessness, or cruelty, it was that, in their experience so far, ships sink slowly, and rescue ships arrive in time, therefore lifeboats aren’t for long term occupation, but rather a taxi service between the slowly sinking ship and the rescue vessel. At least, so says Titanic expert, Simon Royal.