Credit: Danny ClinchNeil Young is among the many unfortunate people who have lost homes to the massive wildfires raging in Northern and Southern California. In a message posted Sunday on his Neil Young Archives website, the folk-rock legend reveals that a house he owns in Malibu was destroyed by fire.
“I have lost my home before to a California fire, now another,” he writes.
In the note, Young also severely criticizes President Donald Trump, blasting him for a recent Twitter message in which he blamed the wildfires on California’s poor forest management.
“California is vulnerable — not because of poor forest management, as DT (our so-called president) would have us think,” Young writes. “As a matter of fact this is not a forest fire that rages on as I write this. We are vulnerable because of Climate Change; the extreme weather events and our extended drought is part of it.”
Neil continues, “Our temperatures are higher than ever here in our hottest summer on record. That has not helped. DT seems to be the Denier. (I’m holding back and not using the word liar just because it rhymes with denier.) It really is time for a reckoning with this unfit leader. Maybe our new Congress can help. I sure hope so.”
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who turned 73 on Monday, adds, “Hopefully we can come together as a people to take on Climate Change. We have the tools and can do it if we tried.”
Young ends his message by again digging into Trump, calling him “an unfit leader” and accusing him of defying science and “car[ing] more for his own, convenient option than he does for the people he leads.”
The California fires have burned 196,000 acres of land. More than 149,000 people have been evacuated.
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