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George Whitesides: “Wildfires are obviously important because people's house and…”

Featuring: George Whitesides, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 27

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Published | Video Starts at 24:41

And in some of these drafts for the reconciliation bill, you're going to see billions of dollars move in this direction, that big things can happen there, too. And so I'm really focused on this. Wildfires are obviously important because people's house and lives are at stake, but it's also a huge carbon emitter, 15% to 20%. Up to 15% to 20% of the world's annual carbon emissions come from these big fires. And so this is a huge, huge problem. And it's something that we're just nothing fully, properly organized for. (24:41–24:51)

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