GEORGE CARLIN, never one to mince words, gave his take on the raging California fires this morning to the ladies of "The View" characterizing the fires as cosmic payback from a planet stretched to its breaking point.
"People are selfish," he said. "These people with the fires and the floods and everything, they overbuild and they put nature to the test, and they get what's coming to them, that's what I say."
JOY BEHAR replied, "That's a little harsh, George."
But Carlin went on: "People think nature is outside of them. They don't take into [themselves] the idea that nature is a part of them." Pointing to his chest, he said, "Nature is in here, and if you're in tune with it, like the Indians – the balance of life, the harmony of nature – if you understand that, you don't overbuild, you don't do all this moron stuff."

The always outspoken JAMIE LEE CURTIS told "Entertainment Tonight" that people are in "ultimate denial" in regards to the environment: "Global warming, combined with people building houses in places they shouldn't, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera," she said. "It just compounds to become, as they call it, a perfect storm experience here. It's not by accident. This isn't an act of God. This is an act of man."