Newsom: You Are ‘Dumb’ if You Don’t Think that Climate Caused L.A. Wildfires

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NEWSOM: “Talk about being as dumb as we want to be, places, lifestyles, tradition being wiped off the map, Greenville, Paradise, California. And so this issue has been brought home in a very personal way, not a political way. And Senator Whitehouse is here. He’s also someone that deeply understands that climate risk is financial risk. It’s becoming uninsurable. This is an economic issue, not just a moral issue. It’s not just a competitiveness issue. And so it’s incredibly important that we talk in those terms to address some of the political dynamics. But it’s against something we’re on the other side in, in California. It’s a big blue state, but also has more Republicans than most Republican states. And we have long moved beyond the partisanship on this issue, because there is no Republican thermometer, there’s no Democratic thermometer, there’s just reality. And people in my state have been mugged by reality. Those that have been in denial understand that we’re on the other side of the debate."