Burning down the house by Talking Heads is not the raison d'ete of this blurb but rather the gathering storm known as global warming and the increasing impact it's having on the world, in this case, California, the dry land of brush and scrub forest, complete with intense winds, a Petrie dish made for devastating fires of the wild kind.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing down 600 wildfires in the past three days alone, emergency workers in California rushed to evacuate rural areas of Northern California on Thursday and warned residents that the high winds currently propelling an out-of-control blaze could become even stronger in the coming days.
Remember, it's just the beginning of a long term disaster of our own making.
All this is happening after three straight years of record breaking fires that researchers say are likely to continue in a warming world and which raise an important question: How to live in an ecosystem that is primed to burn?
Interesting question without question is it not?
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