That, and the East Coast is getting smoke for the first time this past year. 20 years ago, the west didn’t burn like that. Didn’t have smoke like that. That was a very recent development in the past 10 years or so. Now the east is starting to burn like us.
I lived in the west and moved for a number of reasons, but one of the reasons was that the city nearly ran out of water twice within a handful of years. One year was a bad drought that depleted the river. The second, rain melted all the snow at once and caused floods that destroyed the water intakes for the city. Nobody could purify the water and the city had a day (1) of reserve water.
I moved to a more climate resilient city, but not everyone will be able to do that. We gotta take care of the planet better, because there’s not another earth-like world within a couple hundred years of us, at least.
That, and the East Coast is getting smoke for the first time this past year. 20 years ago, the west didn’t burn like that. Didn’t have smoke like that. That was a very recent development in the past 10 years or so. Now the east is starting to burn like us.
I lived in the west and moved for a number of reasons, but one of the reasons was that the city nearly ran out of water twice within a handful of years. One year was a bad drought that depleted the river. The second, rain melted all the snow at once and caused floods that destroyed the water intakes for the city. Nobody could purify the water and the city had a day (1) of reserve water.
I moved to a more climate resilient city, but not everyone will be able to do that. We gotta take care of the planet better, because there’s not another earth-like world within a couple hundred years of us, at least.