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October 9, 2022

Fire Country Is Brought to You by Austerity, Mass Incarceration, and Climate Change

Abby Cunniff Jacobin

The new series Fire Country revolves around an incarcerated California firefighter. Based on a real program, the drama is made possible by California’s budget priorities: few resources for climate protection or fire services and abundant investment in prisons.

January 6, 2022

Hell on Earth, Small Town-Style - Climate Change, Up Close and Personal

Jane Braxton Little TomDispatch

The horrendous fire near Boulder, Colorado, is reminiscent of last year's disastrous Dixie Fire in California. Locations are different, but this is what the result of our climate crisis brings - up close and personal.

September 13, 2020

Climate Change Is Worsening California's Hellish Wildfires

Dana Nuccitelli Yale Climate Connections

It's exacerbating hot, dry conditions allowing wildfires to spread farther and faster. Demographic and forest management factors alone are insufficient to explain the magnitude of the observed increase in wildfire extent over the past half-century.

September 10, 2020

The West Coast Is on Fire: 'It Just Took Off as If There Was Jet Fuel'

Paul Blest Vice News

The heat from one fire in California has been so strong that it generated its own thunderstorm cloud. There were at least 24 large wildfires in California, 14 in Oregon, and another 12 in Washington. Yes some still deny climate change.

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