Sep 10, 2020

Watching the West Coast Wildfires from New England

In the decade since I’ve moved away from California, I’ve watched the climate there go from a temperate paradise with the occasional fire to a place with scorching summers and yearly infernos. This is climate change, playing out right in front of us. It’s easy to see these and other disasters from afar and not call them climate catastrophes. But that’s exactly what they are.

Wildfires across the West Coast turned the sky in Oakland, CA an eerie orange yellow