ELON CLIPS – X, Released on 1/9/25

“We really need to have fire breaks, and we need to clear the brush back away from houses. And we need to make sure the reservoirs are full. These are all obvious things.  But due to a bunch of environmental rulings, you can’t actually do that in California.  They’re not allowed to do the fire breaks, and they’re not allowed to push the brush back away from houses because it might hurt some red-legged frog or something like that.  It’s like some sort of creature, usually a creature you’ve never heard of, that is preventing this from occurring.  There’s this fish called the smelt, for example. We have far more freshwater runoff into the ocean than we should on the theory that it helps this one little fish that likes a slightly briny freshwater salt water mix.  And if we keep more fresh water, then the smelt fish will not be happy. But there’s no actual evidence that the smelt fish is going to be unhappy if we keep a bit more fresh water.  So, we should keep more fresh water, keep the reservoirs full, and just have some sensible fire breaks and move the brush away from houses.  We’d have saved a lot of trouble, a lot of tragedy in LA if we’d done that.”

Elon Musk: We could have saved a lot of tragedy in LA.

“We really need to have fire breaks, and we need to clear the brush back away from houses. And we need to make sure the reservoirs are full. These are all obvious things.

But due to a bunch of environmental rulings, you… https://t.co/TW59DahdbZ pic.twitter.com/v29GOXSZgq

— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) January 9, 2025

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