Has the climate crisis made California too dangerous to live in? | Bill McKibben
As with so many things, Californians are going first where the rest of us will follow
by Bill McKibben
Oct 29, 2019
3 minutes
Monday morning dawned smoky across much of California, and it dawned scary – over the weekend winds as high as a hundred miles an hour had whipped wildfires through forests and subdivisions.
It wasn’t the first time this had happened – indeed, it’s happened every year for the last three – and this time the flames were licking against communities destroyed in 2017. Reporters spoke to one family that had moved into their rebuilt home on Saturday, only to be immediately evacuated again.
The spectacle
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