Such a strange contrast between ‘authorities’ manning barricades in Southern California to keep people out, and ‘authorities’ manning ports of entry in Gaza to keep people in and journalists out. 🧐
We now have two classes of homeless people. The "regular" or ordinary homeless people and the recently displaced and often well to do homeless. Look at how much help we are willing to offer to these new homeless people, or new unhoused people. Of course it's right that we offer as much help as we can at the time of such a disaster. And at the same time, how is it that we refuse to even look at people who might be poor, who might have mental illnesses? Please let us see and help all of the people who do not have homes.
I don't remember many specifics, but I watched a documentary once about the Spanish settlers in the LA Valley. It was about how the Native American tribes in the area warned the Spanish not build houses in the valley. They told the Spanish that they don't live there because the area is regularly subjected to forest fires and mudslides. Sometimes decades will go by and nothing happens, but you just don't know when these catastrophes will happen. The Natives warned this causes a false sense of security, but the Spanish settled the LA Valley anyway.
Indiginous intelligence: live in small seasonal or nomadic groups. Move on when the area & wildlife becomes depleted so it can recover. Natives practiced controlled, intentional burns to renew an area & to avoid large catastrophic wildfires.
how come they developed bombs that burn a large neighborhood in few seconds and they do not develop a SAFE way to extinguish a large fire in few seconds.
This has always, always, always been the truth: it's easier to destroy than to build. It's literally one of the biggest reasons why the right opposes the left.
There's a scandal just getting underway here in the UK over the production of fire-retardent materials. Turns out that there are noticeable spikes in the incidence of cancer in the communities where these items are produced. So it's one of those Be Careful What You Wish For scenarios; you'd not want one of those factories in your town would you?
Yeah but No one is talking about the Billionaires who own the water and held the water for themselves, public water that taxpayers pay for. Discuss the real culprits, billionaires, developers want that land where in the Blk community and would do anything to get it. Intentional fires and bombing Blk towns is nothing new, and wouldn’t surprise me. The truth will come out!!
Yes 🙌 My heart goes out to all involved!! The state needs to allow permits and insurance for tiny homes, earth homes, 3d printed homes, (especially for fountains) use less wood!!!
Billionaires burned their own homes to get blk communities? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow more like mismanagement from LA leadership caused this. Stop making it about race. You’re pathetic
I am so sorry to hear of everyone who has lost their homes & property in this terrifying conflagration but, Sonali Kolhatkar, you're not 'living in a war zone' and for many out here it's a rather unfortunate description when you consider what your country is doing to Gaza. You are experiencing a natural disaster brought on at least in part by your government ignoring climate change until it became the climate emergency you're the expressly not living in a war zone. Incredibly your incoming government is considerably more in denial about the CE than previously, so we definitely live in perilous times. So the albeit narrow prospect of the US becoming an actual war zone for the first time ever, if you set aside civil war, must be quite sobering. And yes, the US must stop building houses out of ticky-tacky in high-density neighbourhoods and you'll probably find that the fires are at least better and more easily contained.
agree! language is extremely important to ensure the message and information communicated is accurately reported. prisoners fighting fires in my humble opinion isn’t an abuse but an opportunity to give back to society howeveradequate pay and personal protection should definitely be provided…
Millions of dollars of Fire department equipment sat and wasn't repaired because of money. L.A. Fire department and city officials have let the people down.
People paying $2000 per hour for their private fireman...shameless. These wealthy people could be helping those who have lost everything and have no means to regain anything.
@@elissapotvin3144 Cheer up! Just around the corner, Musk will come out with the "Firefighter Robot"! They will be immune to the fumes and heat from the fire and able to "Open the hood ... get in there ... and fix it!" (RIP Ross Perot).
I would say that uncontrolled building of residential suburbans full of wooden houses in seasonaly drying chaparral biome almost without fire lakes is recipe for catastrophe.
Musk sent a few cybertrucks, it's just an ad opportunity to the richest man on Earth. You won't hear from Zuckerberg, Bezos, Trump, Musk or any of 'm unless they can blame people with 20/20 hindsight.
Thank you, Ms. Goodman and Democracy Now for covering the California fires. Prayers for safety and thank you to the Californian, Mexican, and Canadian firefighters for your tireless work in fighting the fires.
Please focus on the needs of renters who have been displaced and have no funds to recover from these fires. Set up a fund for them and no reports on celebrities unless they donate to help the renters. How about the pain of renters who loss everything in these fires and no support by celebrities? There is a need to rebuild in these areas by going all Green Building materials and avoid rebuilding on the shoreline of our beaches. Change the tax structure for home owners (reduce since you failed them) and allocate funds to renters to help them relocate and set up a job bank ASAP: Okay rich company and rich people: if you really cared for the people of Los Angeles how about you set up a special nonprofit fund and allocate $20 million dollars to this fund and the mission: To support renters affected by these fires. face-orange-frowningShow us you really care for those who helped you make money; workers who help build your places; mostly hard workers like people of color; many of them renters. And stop bragging and showing off your richness celebrities; Fund for renters is needed ASAP. DO you have a better idea? Do not donate to United way, they take about 20% for their high salaries for their staff and they hardly work at all, cut the salaries of all City/County and state administrators as well in all government services. They make too much money for the little work they hardly do; it's mostly done by their secretaries.
We pay taxes to protect, rescue and/or recover our citizens and property. The US government, state governments, and local governments need to work better together for the citizens as they are charged to do. The communities should be commended for all of the contributions to cleaning up or helping during any disaster, but that should not give the false view that it is up to them to perform and provide for things that, again, we pay taxes to ensure we have resources to do. The amount of civic duties society has increasingly been responsible for including search and rescue, diving for missing people, fire suppression, these things are all becoming increasingly placed on communities and individuals. Meanwhile, our taxes, which are collected at an amount that rarely changes for the average citizen, are being squandered on things that do not benefit the general public. Public service and the services that we all pay for are not "politics", and they do not belong in the private sector. This is our choice of how we want to live in a society, and it is being corrupted by special interests like corporations, billionaires and money changing hands. The people who have interfered with the advancement of the repairs to the climate should be charged with paying for it and taking responsibility for their denial. We've been warned for decade that we are reaching the tipping point, the point of no return, and we should not be surprised that ignoring that caused this. People need to focus and realize that living in a society means funding the quality of life for everyone. Pay now, or pay later. It's later.
@@aviyahcrow6617 Might sound counter productive, but paying civil servants of all kinds a wage that would make buying them off not worth losing their job would probably work.
Condolences to all affected, and thanks to all first responders and volunteers,l and military, it will be cheaper to fight climate change now, instead of paying for all these disasters and it will also stop most of this pain and suffering, cali is leading in climate change prevention but climate is global and we need the USA to take it more seriously
Climate change has no influence on what's happening, all the extreme weather, fires, floods, etc...all weaponized. You are aiding and abetting genocide by believing and echoing the official lies.
Yea, natures way if saying INTENTIONALLY SET FIRES Spread fast with NO WATER which is pumped bk into the Pacific Ocean can't flow south🤔 Who woulda thunk it?!🤔😂
Amy you are such a phenomenal human. You are the first reporter outside of RolandMartinUnfilter to acknowledge the historical significance of the altadena black homeowners. 😊
Naked capitalism hard at work. Weather extremes literally exposing the absurdity of incarcerated prisoners doing the firefighting for a few dollars,along side private company firefighters protecting uninsurable mansions.
The group that monitors drought nationally has said that drought has happened basically all across America in the last year. I live close to Lake Michigan. I wonder how many places want to tap into the Great Lakes?
The same people who made up the lies about FEMA and North Carolina's floods are saying that Californians brought this on themselves and that officials are faulty. I'll give you one chance to guess who those people may be.
It's a failure because the extreme radical right wing thinks the USA is going back to black slavery while most are indentured servants anyway...the blind and wilful ignorance for more than 70 years by the incoming really smart legislatures is going to be nothing more than the red-herring side show spectacle of dick nixon and his mccarthy culture war clowns who murdered 4 Democratic leaders and have sent this country into a theocratic oligarchy of imbeciles.
It was known for decades that these areas were a dangerous place to build homes and that drought and winds might come together one day even without climate change.
They can choose not to it's totally voluntary. They are prisoners, thieves, drug pushers, burglers, and much worse. The money they earn is so they can buy from the prison cafeteria/store. They do not have to earn a living pay bills no rent , no groceries, etc. This is a privilege they earn with good behavior. Stop feeling sorry for criminals and start realizing that this disaster could have been avoided with planning and putting in place the proper equipment and people who would help this be avoided. Climate change is not what is happening its incompetence from the leaders.
Rarely mentioned thing too: Animal agriculture is an at LEAST as destructive force for the climate as fossil fuels, as WELL as to out health and of course animals. There is NO sustainable climate with animal ag in it. Even if we stopped ALL fossil fuels forever today, animal ag would alone take us over the tipping points. Scientists have been beating the drum over this for years, yet nobody mentions it. It is a FAR easier, faster transition with instant positive effects to transition to plant based food production. It takes 1/10th the land and resources, giving forrests a chance to regrow. At least we somehow need fossil fules for some infrastructure for good. Nobody needs pork, in fact, pork is detrimental to public health on multiple fronts. Animal oppression is part of fascism. Animal rights is part of total liberation.
Talk about the architects of the area drained the wetlands to accommodate the building and the billionaires who secretly negotiated the confiscation of the remaining water. The area is crispy dry now.
Task for Los Angeles: Build gigantic tanks in high places to store sea water. Better to have salt water than not to have water to fight fires. This is preparation for the future.
Those prisoners fall under the exception clause of the 13th Amendment, which puts one back into slavery if convicted of a crime. See “Slaves of the State”, by Dennis Childs.
Nahhh.....you'd better be thanking the republikkkans and their culture wars because they're who has caused this with their decades long blind ignorance and cognitive dissonance.
Just wanted to voice my opinion: Thank you for all the emergency workers, including the incarcerated firefighters. The payments should be higher at least to the legal minimum wages for the inmates. But to be fair, $43,000/year sheltering and foods should be considered in the equations. We as citizens of South California should be fair to everyone. It's only enforced humanities and motivations.
Sonali Kolhatkar : "The importance of pulling money out of the architecture of death-making " Sad reality of the billions of US dollars spent destroying Gaza. Can there be new empathy for Gazans in LA now? Or will the message be missed?
Nope, they can just pointlessly wave their hands at the weather and take no practical steps or responsibility towards any prevention. The grift and scam culture in California will never end.
@@kpokpojiji ‘American’ culture is really just the top 5 cities, with LA and NYC at the very top. Most of the empty or poor areas America don’t have any cultural pull at all.
Hello Amy, I'm from So California and inderstand the fear of fire there. I looked on goggle earth for my old homeplace in Mt Washington and was surprised to see how overgrown the the street is now. As a child in the mid 60's I remember the fire marshall came every year to make sure the area around the house was cleared of brush. But now is not the time to cast blame at all. Casting blame now is like blaming doctors who are trying to save lives in the emergency room. This to breaks my heart.
Democracy Now and host Amy Goodman continue to bring truth and accountability to the people. Thank you for covering the untold story of how Black communities are fighting to save their homes and help each other hold on to the dreams and hopes of their ancestors in Altadena. Similarly, the use of incarcerated firefighters who are risking their lives for a pittance. Thank you, Amy Goodman, a friend of the people upon whom we can depend to tell our stories.
Same thing happens with hurricanes that the rich and developers buy up land and rebuild on the beaches and in onshore areas that are prime hurricane targets. Laws need to deny building near beaches and in fire zones and in flood zones. There are plenty of other places in America to build farther inshore or in fire protected communities, regulated to prevent the spread of fire.
Well, planting NATIVE would help with the mudslides. Those native plants have developed a system that is more conducive to the environment. Expecting a short root system like non-native grasses to hold your backyard in place is ridiculous and water-consuming. If you start with the rebuild planting NATIVE plants you could very well help with any possible, future problems. But that will take forward thinking and planning on your part.
fixing the very real climate crisis will not solve poverty and as long as we have poverty we will have crime. anyone else here been hungry? anyone else here have a hard time finding a good job? the system is what needs fixing.
DNow endorsed Kamala. Keeping the time-served prisoners incarcerated despite the sla… can't mention THAT word. Yeah, we need academic names and 'frameworks.' Endorse someone who doesn't support this- what do you Americans say because you're not allowed words? - doodie!
Shifting of the magnetic poles, lack of water, reducing the number of firefighters, funding for firefighters cut, and not cleaning up the forest had nothing to do with this.
The constant PR by authorities just sounds empty. How about actually admitting why these fires are happening?? Honestly....I can't watch the PR crap. Just go do your work!
After a fire that never should have happened burned thousands of houses to the ground in a liberal enclave of Los Angeles through a combination of democrat incompetence and more democrat incompetence, you might ask yourself whether the deep blue people of Los Angeles are ever going to come to their senses and start electing people who aren’t a bunch of communist morons more concerned with Ghana junkets and lesbian representation at the fire department then with actually doing their jobs. Don’t bother asking. The answer is “No.” They’re never going to change. They can’t change. They’re going to keep on electing the same brand of democrat mediocrities who got them into this mess, but they do have a plan. They’re going to blame the weather, insurance companies that don’t want to lose money, Donald Trump, and anything but themselves for the chaos they voted for.
In that beautiful valley area... they should just plan out a series of towers that would be footed in a way to be independent of their surround... with tunnels rather than streets... and multi-unit... fixed size... so each tower would house parking and ample utility to balance with occupancy for efficiency×population×distance between to maintain veiws and moderate height. Have all access underground and path out that whole area as massive public park.
I've been waiting for someone to report on the impact of the fires on the homeless. How about lives as well as property. And, how about the impact on the poor not just the wealthy.
I love this program and listen daily. I like to blame the oil companies also. But.....we consumers are just as guilty. We use gasoline and avoid public transit. We don't demand more public transit etc. Worried about climate change? Stop driving your car, SUV etc. This was a good program, thank you.
“Go electric!” sounds great, but do you realize that large parts of the US are using electricity made from burning coal? How green is that? Harnessing wind power also sounds great, but do you realize what it takes to build and set up those big wind turbines? And their life span is not very long, so then you have to dismantle and remove, and then replace it. They also have a concrete base, so now there are farms riddled with huge concrete foundations for the turbines. My father asked me years ago to never allow a wind turbine on our property. He felt it was short sighted, and in the long run, the farmer will be the loser. I also don’t think we have the technology yet to go to electric cars - why not hybrids, where we can greatly cut the use of fossil fuels, and continue to research consumer friendly electric vehicles.
@1:00, why did you clip the Upside-Down Cross lady out of the shot? The original broadcast prominently features her with a Upside Down Cross necklace in a funeral style black dress. She's also in the outdoor presser wearing a yellow jacket over the dress, necklace not visible. Could be the cross of St Peter! Dont you want their signs and symbols visible for us to see who they serve? Editing the clip after the fact undermines your objectivity.
I would imagine prisoners are given the choice to battle the fire. I am thankful for their work. They have also violated society and don’t deserve a big wage as we are already paying $132,000 to incarcerate them. Jail is not meant to be “fair.”
Best regards from Germany. I am very sorry for this disaster. But you must stop fossil fuels, Clausius Clapeyron will not have any mercy. You must stop this President in his Drill Baby Drill nightmare.
Thanks for the sympathy, but what do Fossil Fuels have to do with these fires? Wild fires are an infinite threat in California. Neglect at the top allowed them to get to this level. This could have been prevented.
Probably shouldn't have removed the giant inland sea in CA that would have accounted for a lot of the evaporated water during the rainy season. Sequestering water in unnatural locations will mess up the places where you took it from. This is the root problem.
One aspect that is not added in, Earth goes through Climate Shifts over time! Remember the Ice Age, you can't blame man for that. Yes we can do things to harm the climate but even without us, it would happen. Thanks for all the dedicated Firefighters risking their lives in this disaster.
excllent interview. Blessing to the firefighters who are battling these fires.
The Navajo Nation (U.S.Navajo Indigenious) also sent their firefighters last week🙏
Thank you all. Sending love to our Navajo Nation ❤
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❤agreed❤
Thank you very much for the enlightened dialogue!
Such a strange contrast between ‘authorities’ manning barricades in Southern California to keep people out, and ‘authorities’ manning ports of entry in Gaza to keep people in and journalists out. 🧐
Karma s a beeech...is ALL. I've to say!!!
We now have two classes of homeless people. The "regular" or ordinary homeless people and the recently displaced and often well to do homeless. Look at how much help we are willing to offer to these new homeless people, or new unhoused people. Of course it's right that we offer as much help as we can at the time of such a disaster. And at the same time, how is it that we refuse to even look at people who might be poor, who might have mental illnesses? Please let us see and help all of the people who do not have homes.
Yeah absolutely this. It's terrible for everyone there, but somehow so much worse for homeless people and folk who are disabled 😓
Anyone who owns a $40M home, also has other homes elsewhere.😊
The poor unhoused people are necessary for capitalism to continue. of course the ruling class doesnt help them
Just like Hawaii
Yep, caused by anthropogenic global warming and fueled by extreme greed
Greece, Spain, Siberia, Canada, even the artic circle had a record wild fire .... But blame the Black woman.
Yep....but also: Karma s a beeech. And don't ever blame "climate change"... Maybe use your 🧠
And it isn't because of a "climate crisis"!
I don't remember many specifics, but I watched a documentary once about the Spanish settlers in the LA Valley. It was about how the Native American tribes in the area warned the Spanish not build houses in the valley. They told the Spanish that they don't live there because the area is regularly subjected to forest fires and mudslides. Sometimes decades will go by and nothing happens, but you just don't know when these catastrophes will happen. The Natives warned this causes a false sense of security, but the Spanish settled the LA Valley anyway.
I agree with you @Laurentipia5
Please supply me source historic links or books. Thanks! 5:58
The aboriginals in Australia gave similar advice to the “first settlers” in fire prone areas in Australia
Indiginous intelligence: live in small seasonal or nomadic groups. Move on when the area & wildlife becomes depleted so it can recover. Natives practiced controlled, intentional burns to renew an area & to avoid large catastrophic wildfires.
European people typical mentality that time - we will order to wind and rain. And some people trust to it until these days.
It's not just LA. I'm under a Red Flag warning in San Diego County as well. Very high anxiety.
Same. I live in Escondido. Lots of dry brush all around us.
I did not know that. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Do you have in San Diego some fire ponds in residential areas ?
I believe Canada has sent some people to help as well.
True
Mexico and South Africa as well.
They are better neighbors than the US.
I heard Trudeau is there too
What about help from aussies ?
how come they developed bombs that burn a large neighborhood in few seconds and they do not develop a SAFE way to extinguish a large fire in few seconds.
Search up Japans fire hoses on their homes… they are innovative and ahead of these times.. wish we had something similar
This has always, always, always been the truth: it's easier to destroy than to build.
It's literally one of the biggest reasons why the right opposes the left.
Because it would need all oxygen removed. Every living thing, other than anaerobic bacteria, would die.
So true
There's a scandal just getting underway here in the UK over the production of fire-retardent materials. Turns out that there are noticeable spikes in the incidence of cancer in the communities where these items are produced.
So it's one of those Be Careful What You Wish For scenarios; you'd not want one of those factories in your town would you?
Yeah but No one is talking about the Billionaires who own the water and held the water for themselves, public water that taxpayers pay for. Discuss the real culprits, billionaires, developers want that land where in the Blk community and would do anything to get it. Intentional fires and bombing Blk towns is nothing new, and wouldn’t surprise me. The truth will come out!!
I'm glad I live in ohio
So where did they hid this water in swimming pools 🤔
Yes 🙌 My heart goes out to all involved!! The state needs to allow permits and insurance for tiny homes, earth homes, 3d printed homes, (especially for fountains) use less wood!!!
I believe you're referring to the res ni ck s.
Billionaires burned their own homes to get blk communities? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow more like mismanagement from LA leadership caused this. Stop making it about race. You’re pathetic
I am so sorry to hear of everyone who has lost their homes & property in this terrifying conflagration but, Sonali Kolhatkar, you're not 'living in a war zone' and for many out here it's a rather unfortunate description when you consider what your country is doing to Gaza.
You are experiencing a natural disaster brought on at least in part by your government ignoring climate change until it became the climate emergency you're the expressly not living in a war zone. Incredibly your incoming government is considerably more in denial about the CE than previously, so we definitely live in perilous times. So the albeit narrow prospect of the US becoming an actual war zone for the first time ever, if you set aside civil war, must be quite sobering.
And yes, the US must stop building houses out of ticky-tacky in high-density neighbourhoods and you'll probably find that the fires are at least better and more easily contained.
1:52 ‘incarcerated FIREFIGHTERS’…??no…’incarcerated PRISONERS assisting FIREFIGHTERS’
agree! language is extremely important to ensure the message and information communicated is accurately reported. prisoners fighting fires in my humble opinion isn’t an abuse but an opportunity to give back to society howeveradequate pay and personal protection should definitely be provided…
Millions of dollars of Fire department equipment sat and wasn't repaired because of money. L.A. Fire department and city officials have let the people down.
Thank you so much Mexico for not turning your back on the USA.
YOU are a friend. Unlike USA towards Mexico to you of late.
By the trump
@@wdvest8333 Both Trump and Beideb...Sheissegal
Lies but they should turn their backs on the rascit usa
Your polirics are showing help comes i. All sizes texas sending 135 firefighters along with 45 vehicles
People paying $2000 per hour for their private fireman...shameless. These wealthy people could be helping those who have lost everything and have no means to regain anything.
The wealthy are all about themselves. If they cared about society, they would pay their fair share of the taxes that support society.
Here they go again
you live in the US, not dream land. This is normal for them
It never occurred to me that someone could pay for their own firefighter. I guess I shouldn't be surprised...
@@elissapotvin3144 Cheer up! Just around the corner, Musk will come out with the "Firefighter Robot"! They will be immune to the fumes and heat from the fire and able to "Open the hood ... get in there ... and fix it!" (RIP Ross Perot).
If insurance companies cancelling insurance contracts is not sign of immediate disaster, i do not know what else is.
I would say that uncontrolled building of residential suburbans full of wooden houses in seasonaly drying chaparral biome almost without fire lakes is recipe for catastrophe.
I would like to see Democracy Now cover the role of the Resnicks as it relates to water shortages. There is more to the story of this catastrophe.
Exactly 💯, I think so too
Turning off your water main before evacuating saves water pressure.
Meanwhile people are leaving their sprinklers running to save their own homes after they evacuate.
@@QuinnOsgood-c9v then the lawn burns leaving the water running. then the metal burns and melts lowering the water pressure.
@@George7Baldwin exactly
“…high risk zones” that’s a dubious classification for a land grab…
Israel never send help ??
Viva Mexico thank you for your help.send our prayer to LA and new York
Iran has offered to help as well.
NFL and Taylor Swift donated 15 million between them. Musk? Trump? Not one dime.
Canada ✅
Israel, the ultimate frienemy.
Musk sent a few cybertrucks, it's just an ad opportunity to the richest man on Earth. You won't hear from Zuckerberg, Bezos, Trump, Musk or any of 'm unless they can blame people with 20/20 hindsight.
Amazing jornalism ❤❤ congratulations 👏
Thank you, Ms. Goodman and Democracy Now for covering the California fires. Prayers for safety and thank you to the Californian, Mexican, and Canadian firefighters for your tireless work in fighting the fires.
Please focus on the needs of renters who have been displaced and have no funds to recover from these fires. Set up a fund for them and no reports on celebrities unless they donate to help the renters. How about the pain of renters who loss everything in these fires and no support by celebrities? There is a need to rebuild in these areas by going all Green Building materials and avoid rebuilding on the shoreline of our beaches. Change the tax structure for home owners (reduce since you failed them) and allocate funds to renters to help them relocate and set up a job bank ASAP: Okay rich company and rich people: if you really cared for the people of Los Angeles how about you set up a special nonprofit fund and allocate $20 million dollars to this fund and the mission: To support renters affected by these fires. face-orange-frowningShow us you really care for those who helped you make money; workers who help build your places; mostly hard workers like people of color; many of them renters. And stop bragging and showing off your richness celebrities; Fund for renters is needed ASAP. DO you have a better idea? Do not donate to United way, they take about 20% for their high salaries for their staff and they hardly work at all, cut the salaries of all City/County and state administrators as well in all government services. They make too much money for the little work they hardly do; it's mostly done by their secretaries.
We pay taxes to protect, rescue and/or recover our citizens and property. The US government, state governments, and local governments need to work better together for the citizens as they are charged to do. The communities should be commended for all of the contributions to cleaning up or helping during any disaster, but that should not give the false view that it is up to them to perform and provide for things that, again, we pay taxes to ensure we have resources to do. The amount of civic duties society has increasingly been responsible for including search and rescue, diving for missing people, fire suppression, these things are all becoming increasingly placed on communities and individuals. Meanwhile, our taxes, which are collected at an amount that rarely changes for the average citizen, are being squandered on things that do not benefit the general public. Public service and the services that we all pay for are not "politics", and they do not belong in the private sector. This is our choice of how we want to live in a society, and it is being corrupted by special interests like corporations, billionaires and money changing hands. The people who have interfered with the advancement of the repairs to the climate should be charged with paying for it and taking responsibility for their denial. We've been warned for decade that we are reaching the tipping point, the point of no return, and we should not be surprised that ignoring that caused this. People need to focus and realize that living in a society means funding the quality of life for everyone. Pay now, or pay later. It's later.
Yes, and the thing about pay later is all the people who are hurt during the time it takes for society to wake up and get a clue.
100% correct.
But how would politicians PROFIT?🤔
@@aviyahcrow6617 Might sound counter productive, but paying civil servants of all kinds a wage that would make buying them off not worth losing their job would probably work.
Condolences to all affected, and thanks to all first responders and volunteers,l and military, it will be cheaper to fight climate change now, instead of paying for all these disasters and it will also stop most of this pain and suffering, cali is leading in climate change prevention but climate is global and we need the USA to take it more seriously
Climate change has no influence on what's happening, all the extreme weather, fires, floods, etc...all weaponized. You are aiding and abetting genocide by believing and echoing the official lies.
It is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong!
Terribly wrong.. Karma
Yea, natures way if saying INTENTIONALLY SET FIRES Spread fast with NO WATER which is pumped bk into the Pacific Ocean can't flow south🤔 Who woulda thunk it?!🤔😂
Thank you Mexico for sending help👏❤
Amy you are such a phenomenal human.
You are the first reporter outside of RolandMartinUnfilter
to acknowledge the historical significance of the altadena black homeowners. 😊
That's a damn shame to take someone out of prison and force them to put they life on the line for 5 dollars and hour
That's a disgrace I thought a hour but a day if they going to fight the fires they should be getting paid just like everyone else
These guys be threatened if they refuse to go
It's 5 dollars per day. Just horrible.
Slave labor, an industry, revealed.
Naked capitalism hard at work.
Weather extremes literally exposing the absurdity of incarcerated prisoners doing the firefighting for a few dollars,along side private company firefighters protecting uninsurable mansions.
The group that monitors drought nationally has said that drought has happened basically all across America in the last year. I live close to Lake Michigan. I wonder how many places want to tap into the Great Lakes?
What a nightmare! And there's some who delight in adding to the misery because of politics. How pathetic, right?
Prayers
The same people who made up the lies about FEMA and North Carolina's floods are saying that Californians brought this on themselves and that officials are faulty. I'll give you one chance to guess who those people may be.
Is there any news on the homeless people?
This is an abysmal failure on so many levels.
This is an overheated atmosphere. I would say welcome to the new normal but it’s only going to get worse.
It's a failure because the extreme radical right wing thinks the USA is going back to black slavery while most are indentured servants anyway...the blind and wilful ignorance for more than 70 years by the incoming really smart legislatures is going to be nothing more than the red-herring side show spectacle of dick nixon and his mccarthy culture war clowns who murdered 4 Democratic leaders and have sent this country into a theocratic oligarchy of imbeciles.
It was known for decades that these areas were a dangerous place to build homes and that drought and winds might come together one day even without climate change.
All of us in SoCal are vulnerable to Santa Ana winds and fire. It's like earthquakes. It's a risk of living here
PBS pls air Pistachio Wars, explores the way water is controlled by a few.
Iran sent aid, too, which blows my mind.
Shame on the county paying so little to the incarcerated firefighters
It's voluntary 😊
@@georgemetesky5519 still, it's a valid point....
They can choose not to it's totally voluntary. They are prisoners, thieves, drug pushers, burglers, and much worse. The money they earn is so they can buy from the prison cafeteria/store. They do not have to earn a living pay bills no rent , no groceries, etc. This is a privilege they earn with good behavior. Stop feeling sorry for criminals and start realizing that this disaster could have been avoided with planning and putting in place the proper equipment and people who would help this be avoided. Climate change is not what is happening its incompetence from the leaders.
@@georgemetesky5519do they get time of their sentences?
Excellent interview. Thank you Amy.
Rarely mentioned thing too:
Animal agriculture is an at LEAST as destructive force for the climate as fossil fuels, as WELL as to out health and of course animals.
There is NO sustainable climate with animal ag in it. Even if we stopped ALL fossil fuels forever today, animal ag would alone take us over the tipping points. Scientists have been beating the drum over this for years, yet nobody mentions it. It is a FAR easier, faster transition with instant positive effects to transition to plant based food production. It takes 1/10th the land and resources, giving forrests a chance to regrow.
At least we somehow need fossil fules for some infrastructure for good. Nobody needs pork, in fact, pork is detrimental to public health on multiple fronts.
Animal oppression is part of fascism. Animal rights is part of total liberation.
Great point!
Monoculture is just as damaging
Talk about the architects of the area drained the wetlands to accommodate the building and the billionaires who secretly negotiated the confiscation of the remaining water. The area is crispy dry now.
Task for Los Angeles: Build gigantic tanks in high places to store sea water. Better to have salt water than not to have water to fight fires. This is preparation for the future.
That's a Great Idea! Good Job! More Water Storage Tanks, like the old times! (one actual thing that is worth saving from the 'old times').
Great channel, keep this up. Octavia admirer here
VIVA MEXICO
Those prisoners fall under the exception clause of the 13th Amendment, which puts one back into slavery if convicted of a crime. See “Slaves of the State”, by Dennis Childs.
Appreciate meeting Sonali. And Octavia. And these intelligent and helpful women.
@J.M.-nb4gw america is made up of immigrants.
Insurance companies also drop thousand of homeowners 10days before this happen
How?
The terrible thing is, this is not getting better. The fires will just get worse in the future. Thanks Exxon
Thanks politicians with PERSONAL STOCK PORTFOLIOS IN EXXON
Nahhh.....you'd better be thanking the republikkkans and their culture wars because they're who has caused this with their decades long blind ignorance and cognitive dissonance.
Just wanted to voice my opinion: Thank you for all the emergency workers, including the incarcerated firefighters. The payments should be higher at least to the legal minimum wages for the inmates. But to be fair, $43,000/year sheltering and foods should be considered in the equations.
We as citizens of South California should be fair to everyone. It's only enforced humanities and motivations.
We have way too many people incarcerated, an unnecessary expense. A conversation for another day.
Sonali Kolhatkar :
"The importance of pulling money out of the architecture of death-making "
Sad reality of the billions of US dollars spent destroying Gaza. Can there be new empathy for Gazans in LA now? Or will the message be missed?
Octavia Butler is even better than The Simpsons at prognostication!
5 dollars a day pay for prisoners and $2,000 an hour for private fighters. Disgusting. USA should be ashamed of this prison labor
The USA has too many things to be ashamed of
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@jonathan-sund yes, the US’s support of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is definitely another thing to be ashamed of.
That's why Amerikkka is being judged by GOD
Your reports are always, a++, but this was a S teir report. Thanks for all you do.
If you make the world, “Police Free”, who’s supposed to keep the looters out of your house ?
There be no looters.
Planet earth is magically beautiful! We have to protect our home!!!
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Big oil should pay for the clean-up and rebuild. They lied for decades about the effects of burning their products.
You're not fixing the climate before the next fire season. Might want to figure something out...
Nope, they can just pointlessly wave their hands at the weather and take no practical steps or responsibility towards any prevention. The grift and scam culture in California will never end.
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@TheRiiiight it's all of America, bro.
@@kpokpojiji ‘American’ culture is really just the top 5 cities, with LA and NYC at the very top. Most of the empty or poor areas America don’t have any cultural pull at all.
@@TheRiiiightThats not true at all lol
Hello Amy,
I'm from So California and inderstand the fear of fire there. I looked on goggle earth for my old homeplace in Mt Washington and was surprised to see how overgrown the the street is now. As a child in the mid 60's I remember the fire marshall came every year to make sure the area around the house was cleared of brush.
But now is not the time to cast blame at all. Casting blame now is like blaming doctors who are trying to save lives in the emergency room. This to breaks my heart.
Democracy Now and host Amy Goodman continue to bring truth and accountability to the people. Thank you for covering the untold story of how Black communities are fighting to save their homes and help each other hold on to the dreams and hopes of their ancestors in Altadena. Similarly, the use of incarcerated firefighters who are risking their lives for a pittance. Thank you, Amy Goodman, a friend of the people upon whom we can depend to tell our stories.
It’s a climate change problem. Thank God. I thought it was the Russians. More regulation, larger taxes, that’s what LA needs
Stay strong, California! Love from Connecticut.
It's shameful how a wealthy state like California does not have enough firefighters for a crisis.
The Manhattan Project 2025
I clicked specifically because I saw Octavia Butler in the title. Read Parable of the Sower for a class.
Same thing happens with hurricanes that the rich and developers buy up land and rebuild on the beaches and in onshore areas that are prime hurricane targets. Laws need to deny building near beaches and in fire zones and in flood zones. There are plenty of other places in America to build farther inshore or in fire protected communities, regulated to prevent the spread of fire.
DN! has great guests, amazing segment.
Thanks for giving fuller coverage today, than 6 minutes last week.
The last I heard (24 hours ago) 16 dead. No doubt more.
Well, planting NATIVE would help with the mudslides. Those native plants have developed a system that is more conducive to the environment. Expecting a short root system like non-native grasses to hold your backyard in place is ridiculous and water-consuming. If you start with the rebuild planting NATIVE plants you could very well help with any possible, future problems. But that will take forward thinking and planning on your part.
fixing the very real climate crisis will not solve poverty and as long as we have poverty we will have crime. anyone else here been hungry? anyone else here have a hard time finding a good job? the system is what needs fixing.
Exactly, capitalism gone completely of the rails!
DNow endorsed Kamala.
Keeping the time-served prisoners incarcerated despite the sla… can't mention THAT word.
Yeah, we need academic names and 'frameworks.'
Endorse someone who doesn't support this- what do you Americans say because you're not allowed words? - doodie!
Her description sounds like Gaza.
This lady said she's lucky that her home is standing, lady you're blessed and you should thank God for his mercy
The wind, despite its destruction, is not sadistic.
Shifting of the magnetic poles, lack of water, reducing the number of firefighters, funding for firefighters cut, and not cleaning up the forest had nothing to do with this.
The constant PR by authorities just sounds empty. How about actually admitting why these fires are happening?? Honestly....I can't watch the PR crap. Just go do your work!
I do remember Oxtavia Butler. She was a brilliant guest.
Thank you Mexico for sending help. I doubt the US would be as compassionate.
Inmates are given a choice to fight fires.
Hey. John Brown's son, Owen, is also buried in Altadena.
May God bless and vouchsafe for all the courageous first responders and the people they help who are evacuees.
❤climate change is real❤
After a fire that never should have happened burned thousands of houses to the ground in a liberal enclave of Los Angeles through a combination of democrat incompetence and more democrat incompetence, you might ask yourself whether the deep blue people of Los Angeles are ever going to come to their senses and start electing people who aren’t a bunch of communist morons more concerned with Ghana junkets and lesbian representation at the fire department then with actually doing their jobs. Don’t bother asking. The answer is “No.” They’re never going to change. They can’t change. They’re going to keep on electing the same brand of democrat mediocrities who got them into this mess, but they do have a plan. They’re going to blame the weather, insurance companies that don’t want to lose money, Donald Trump, and anything but themselves for the chaos they voted for.
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The judgement of God Almighty is real, keep mocking and laughing at the King of Kings and Lord of lords and see what will happen to you
@@Vernaderiggs-sh5likeep believing this foolish idiocy and see where that gets you.
In that beautiful valley area... they should just plan out a series of towers that would be footed in a way to be independent of their surround... with tunnels rather than streets... and multi-unit... fixed size... so each tower would house parking and ample utility to balance with occupancy for efficiency×population×distance between to maintain veiws and moderate height. Have all access underground and path out that whole area as massive public park.
2000 dollars a hour
Eye watering prices 💧 🚿
I've been waiting for someone to report on the impact of the fires on the homeless. How about lives as well as property. And, how about the impact on the poor not just the wealthy.
I love this program and listen daily. I like to blame the oil companies also. But.....we consumers are just as guilty. We use gasoline and avoid public transit. We don't demand more public transit etc. Worried about climate change? Stop driving your car, SUV etc. This was a good program, thank you.
Lord,you are the one makes miracles happen and I am asking one now for L.A. fires.Amen
“Go electric!” sounds great, but do you realize that large parts of the US are using electricity made from burning coal? How green is that? Harnessing wind power also sounds great, but do you realize what it takes to build and set up those big wind turbines? And their life span is not very long, so then you have to dismantle and remove, and then replace it. They also have a concrete base, so now there are farms riddled with huge concrete foundations for the turbines. My father asked me years ago to never allow a wind turbine on our property. He felt it was short sighted, and in the long run, the farmer will be the loser. I also don’t think we have the technology yet to go to electric cars - why not hybrids, where we can greatly cut the use of fossil fuels, and continue to research consumer friendly electric vehicles.
@1:00, why did you clip the Upside-Down Cross lady out of the shot? The original broadcast prominently features her with a Upside Down Cross necklace in a funeral style black dress. She's also in the outdoor presser wearing a yellow jacket over the dress, necklace not visible.
Could be the cross of St Peter! Dont you want their signs and symbols visible for us to see who they serve? Editing the clip after the fact undermines your objectivity.
People near these fires should wear a protective mask. These fumes are (very) toxic.
I didnt know Sonali was in the area of Eaton. God bless and keep her and her family and friends.
I would imagine prisoners are given the choice to battle the fire. I am thankful for their work. They have also violated society and don’t deserve a big wage as we are already paying $132,000 to incarcerate them. Jail is not meant to be “fair.”
The municipality is United States but the land is Mexican.
Best regards from Germany. I am very sorry for this disaster. But you must stop fossil fuels, Clausius Clapeyron will not have any mercy. You must stop this President in his Drill Baby Drill nightmare.
Thanks for the sympathy, but what do Fossil Fuels have to do with these fires? Wild fires are an infinite threat in California. Neglect at the top allowed them to get to this level. This could have been prevented.
Firefighters are automatically eligible for benefits related to cancer. Those prisoners are not eligible for those health benefits.
Probably shouldn't have removed the giant inland sea in CA that would have accounted for a lot of the evaporated water during the rainy season. Sequestering water in unnatural locations will mess up the places where you took it from. This is the root problem.
One aspect that is not added in, Earth goes through Climate Shifts over time! Remember the Ice Age, you can't blame man for that. Yes we can do things to harm the climate but even without us, it would happen. Thanks for all the dedicated Firefighters risking their lives in this disaster.
Our firefighters deserve the same pay & benefits & budget the police receive
One guy said he makes that a an hour. He’s happy to be giving back to the community. 😅
I have two comments about these fires and climate change. Geoengineering and directed energy weapons.
They should prevent people from rebuilding in the same place.. same with Hurricane prone areas
With that big Ocean right in front of them, you mean they never thought of ways to get water from the Ocean that's literally right in front of them?
Salt corrodes the mechanics of the pumps...not as easy as you would think
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NYC uses fireboats.
Why are there always 744 silent people standing behind the microphone?