And that is kind of crazy when you think about it, because every year now, probably for the rest of our lives, there's going to be billions of dollars of damage and probably dozens of people killed every year from wildfires and Actually many orders of magnitude more [people will die] from smoke inhalation [due to wildfires]. We know that's going to happen with 100% certainty. And yet a lot of our sort of national security conception is focused on foreign threats, which I don't want to denigrate. (25:33–25:36)
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