WFD | A World We Do Not Want

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Beacon NY | 2019–10–31 | Today’s title is lifted from James Chappel, see Readings, below.

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I respond to Farhad Manjoo’s op-ed about California’s wildfires in a piece I wrote this morning, Today’s Apocalypse.

The wildfires in California make it clear — if it was at all unclear before — that we have passed an inflection point in climate. It’s not some future threat, it is right here, right now, and has been for some time.

Farhad Manjoo tries to seek a way out for California while minimizing the scale of the problems confronting the most populous and wealthy state in the union by calling this just another apocalypse in a series of earlier California apocalypses.

Manjoo reveals that he still thinks this is still a future apocalypse, writing,

All the leaves are burned and the sky is gray. California, as it’s currently designed, will not survive the coming climate.

My response?

It’s today’s climate that is burning the leaves, not the coming climate. Today’s winds, today’s fires, today’s apocalypse.