Mel Gibson warns civilization is heading toward 'collapse' as LA fires rage on Joe Rogan's podcast

Mel Gibson shared disturbing visions of fire and brimstone when he appeared on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.

The 69-year-old actor-turned-filmmaker warned the controversial podcaster that society was heading toward a 'collapse' while discussing the fires that have devastated several neighborhoods around Greater Los Angeles and left other celebrities without homes.

Gibson — who ranted that 'the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world' after he was pulled over for drunk driving in 2006 — shared with Rogan that he didn't even know yet if his home was going to survive the 'inferno' that has engulfed parts of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Pasadena and the Hollywood Hills.

Gibson also included plenty of criticism for California Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to 'take care of the forest and maintain the forest,' though the current fires all started in urban environments.

According to the Passion Of The Christ director, 'All those earmarks, the precursors of a collapse, they’re present in our time. It doesn’t take long.'

Gibson referred in his chat to Jared Diamond's 2011 book Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.

'It says all the things you need for a civilization to cave in and collapse,' Gibson said of the book. 'It’s an interesting observation. And we’re no smarter than our grandparents.'

The Mad Max star, who has a home in fire-ravaged coastal Malibu, said his son Milo — who is in the volunteer fire brigade in Malibu — sent him a video of his neighborhood 'in flames,' which made it resemble an 'inferno.'

He isn't in any danger of being homeless, though, as he boasted he has another home in Costa Rica.

'I love it there,' he said after Rogan asked if the ongoing fires would be the final straw for him to finally move out of California.

Later, Gibson joked that he might get 'a new house' out of the crisis.

Ironically, the restaurant and bar where Gibson got drunk before his infamous antisemitic rant in 2006, Moonshadows Malibu, was a victim of the blaze, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gibson reserved much of his fury for the blazes for California's governor, Gavin Newsom.

'I think Newsom said, "I’m gonna take care of the forest and maintain the forest and do all that kinda stuff" — he didn’t do anything,' he complained.

The Braveheart director agreed with the host before joking: 'I think all our tax dollars probably went to Gavin’s hair gel.' 

Rogan chimed in that he believes that the California Governor had put tax dollars toward supporting the homeless  population instead of fire prevention. 

Gibson was on the podcast to promote his upcoming thriller Flight Risk.

The movie, which will be released on January 24, stars Mark Wahlberg as a private pilot who turns out to be a hitman in disguise. 

His plan is to murder a government informant (Topher Grace) set to testify against an organized crime outfit.

However, the FBI Agent escorting him (Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery) realizes the ruse and is able to subdue him, but she and the informant are forced to try to fly the plane on their own, even as it becomes clear that other figures are looking to cut their trip short.

The death toll of the historic infernos have now reached six, as heroic firefighters still battle hellish conditions on the front lines of at least five different fires. 

Apocalyptic fires tore through the tony enclave of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, rapidly spreading to surrounding suburbs as a windstorm sometimes reaching up to 100 mph carried embers and debris in all directions.

Residents fled and then waited with bated breath to learn more about their homes, as news began trickling out that entire streets had been wiped off the map, firefighters were running out of water after destroyed infrastructure prevented more from being pumped up hill and resources were being diverted to fight the fire on multiple fronts.

According to LAist, the demand for water during the firefight was four times usual levels, which made it impossible to refill water tanks quickly enough to increase water pressure, even though the water never ran out. 

Gibson's interview comes as large swathes of the city remained engulfed by the flames which have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. 

On Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tried to deflect criticism that fire hydrants rans dry by insisting they were filled, but simply were not designed to cope with a disaster of this scale.

Although water supplies faltered due to burst pipes and extreme demand, the fire was fueled by dry vegetation and extreme winds, which had gusts of 80 to 100 mph.

It's unclear if more water would have had much of an impact on the blaze, as burning embers flew miles from their origins after being carried by the hurricane-force winds, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Bass' comments came as the fires continued to burn for the third consecutive day, with the Pacific Palisades blaze becoming the most devastating in the county's history.

Almost 180,000 people are under evacuation orders, with hundreds of thousands still without power.