There’s broad consensus that the food system needs updating but little agreement about how to do it. Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder.
In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.
This is only the beginning. This is what three decades of inaction and insufficient action have produced. Ludicrous would be allowing the US, under the grasp of a handful of villainous, ecocide billionaires and ideologues, to drag us into the abyss
This summer’s fires are more than just a wake-up call. They are a five-alarm emergency alert. The least we can demand of our political leaders is that they stop dismantling the only tools we have to fight the incineration of our world.
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