P.J. Denyer
Penultimate Amazing
I believe he thinks that there are vast untapped water resources being held back (in order to protect fish or some such thing) that California could instead allow to be used for irrigation and firefighting.
I think it demonstrates how easily he gets things conflated (there are restrictions on water use, especially domestic use, in order to prevent major rivers running dry) and how poor his understanding of the natural world is (maybe he thinks the fires wouldn't have happened if they'd been allowed to turn the [non existent] irrigation systems on in the forests).
i think it goes beyond misunderstanding, he reminds me of a small child, the whole "Children Say The Funniest Things" bit when you ask them to explain something they couldn't possibly understand but they won't admit it. Instead they start spinning fantastic imaginings with complete confidence.
In adults I'm reminded of the deluded side of the Deluded-Conman scale of woo slinging hucksters, when someone sits there and with complete confidence and expounds on what the gods/spirits/fairies/aliens/ancient masters want and how the World REALLY works based on their own unshakable belief in whatever happened to occur to their imaginations.
The woman who told Richard Dawkins with absolute confidence that he had six strands of DNA, but he should have nine like the Atlantians had and she could replace the missing ones by waving her hands and humming definitely thinks like Donald Trump

