Climate Change and California Fires
Published in The Kaweah Commonwealth
I am having a lot of conversations about this terrible fire
season that end in a bland, “Well, I hope it gets better.” Frankly, I’m growing
tired of this sentiments.
Is that all we’ve got? Throwing up our hands and placing the
responsibility for protecting our homes and most treasured wild places in a
vague notion of “I hope?”
Are we willing to give up that easily? Are we too lazy to
lift a finger in defense of California.
As we mourn one of our very own incredible firefighters, it
grates on me to see the same officials and lawmakers that claim to be champions
for these brave public servants continue to deny, ignore, and actively undermine
attempts to fight climate change. Climate change is the big driver of this shift
toward bigger fires that are increasingly difficult to fight. We know it and
they know it. They should be ashamed of their hypocrisy.
Want to support firefighters? Fight climate change. Fight it
big or fight it small. Do something.
There is so much that we can do. No one has the right to do
nothing.
Latia Taylor
Three Rivers
August 17, 2018
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