I was looking through some old photos online the other day and I came across a series of wildfire pictures. I want to say they were from Brentwood. Wherever – the pics were all of famous people either trying to save their houses or surveying the ashes of their houses. There was LaVerne Andrews, Joe E. Brown, Fred MacMurray – oh, and there was even Richard Nixon standing on his roof with a garden hose.

Point being, they’ve always had wildfires in California.

The global warming business strikes me as a new flavor of old-fashioned millennialism – only for scientists/atheists rather than Christians. The difference is, Christians believe that the Apocalypse is outside their control and unstoppable while the secular people believe that human beings are the cause and that they can stop it through their own efforts. So you have a God-centered Apocalypse and a man-centered Apocalypse – but an Apocalypse nevertheless. Maybe human beings have some basic psychological need for or fear of the End Time.