{"id":12587,"date":"2020-08-27T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2020-08-26T19:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:40:48","slug":"california-apocalypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/california-apocalypto\/","title":{"rendered":"California Apocalypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we can expect the following from our postmodern state government. There are the now-normal raging wildfires in the coastal and Sierra foothills. And they will be greeted as if they are not characteristic threats of 500 years of settled history, but leveraged as proof of global warming as well as the state\u2019s abject inability to put them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the inept state can\u2019t extinguish them as it has in the past, it suggests that it\u2019s more \u201cnatural\u201d to let them burn. Jerry Brown\u2019s team told us that the drought\u2019s toll \u2014 millions of dead trees and tens of millions of acres of parched grass and calcified shrubs on hillsides \u2014 provided a natural source of food and shelter for bugs and birds and thus need not be grazed or thinned or harvested. And so the wages of drought could be in a sense good for an \u201cecosystem\u201d that otherwise proved to be green napalm for the people of foothill communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can expect power outages, because we don\u2019t believe in releasing clean heat to make energy. Note that we do not mind people heating up in their 108-degree apartments without power. The planet is always more important than the non-privileged people who inhabit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/08\/california-apocalypto\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review So we can expect the following from our postmodern state government. There are the now-normal raging wildfires in the coastal and Sierra foothills. And they will be greeted as if they are not characteristic threats of 500 years of settled history, but leveraged as proof of global warming as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3h1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11596,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ironies-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":12587,"position":0},"title":"The Ironies of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Estimates suggest that there are eleven million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. 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The income from exporting petroleum provides cash infusions that can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;May 2006&quot;","block_context":{"text":"May 2006","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2006\/may-2006\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12626,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-same-old-same-old-california-suicide\/","url_meta":{"origin":12587,"position":3},"title":"The Same Old, Same Old California Suicide","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Fall\u00a0is almost here in California. So we know the annual script. 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