Chamath: California's wildfire failure is "a level of incompetence bordering on criminal negligence"

there's a level of incompetence bordering on criminal negligence here that we need to get to the bottom of remember that crazy apocalyptic video of that exact same part of Southern California burning to the ground that was 6 years ago this is not like it was a distant memory from a hundred years ago this idea that we were just Lolly gagging around and got caught off guard by 100 mph winds to me is completely not an acceptable answer there's this California Environmental Quality act and a whole bunch of these other regulatory policies that limited the ability of local governments and fire management to clear dead trees and vegetation multiple

bills AB 2330 ab1 1951 AB 2639 that would have Exempted these Wildfire prevention projects from squa and other pering issues all rejected by the Democrat controlled legislature or worse vetoed by Governor New I think that that's a really big deal I'm just a little bit at a loss to explain these two bodies of data everybody can see that these events are happening all the bills that are meant to prevent this are blocked or veto this is the ultimate expression of negligence and incompetence how much money did the government of California spend poorly as it turns out on homelessness it was about $21 billion and illegal immigrants

I don't know what the final number is there but I suspect in the tens of billions if you reappropriated those dollars to these kinds of protective mechanisms in these areas what would the the outcome have been it's hard for me to believe it would have been as bad as it is right now