by @anarchyroll
9/29/2014
I wonder how many of the 300-400,000 people who attended the recent People’s Climate March in NYC were from California. I wonder this because in the continental United States, nowhere else is being nearly as hard hit by the real-time, negative effects of climate change as the state of California.
California is simultaneously experiencing record drought and record wildfires.
The LA Times has two separate archived databases on their website listing all stories written about the historic drought and wildfires that have been ravaging the state. Both sections are definitely worth checking out to see just how far-reaching the effects of both of these catastrophic events each have.
Some of the numbers found in the archive of stories are simply astounding;
- 100% of the state effected by the now 3 year drought
- 5,000 fires reported/responded to since January 1st, 2014
- 14 residential communities on the verge of being completely waterless
- $200 million and counting spent on to contain wildfires 9 months into 2014
The droughts and wildfires in California have been getting steadily worse over the past half decade. Each year for the past decade has been hotter than the previous. Are we to believe these things aren’t connected? It is easy to be a climate denier when the state you live in isn’t burning around you while at the same time your community has lost access to freshwater.
Perhaps the water utility of Detroit can send some of the water they are saving from shutting access to it off from residents and send it to one of the two disasters occurring in California due to a lack of water.
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