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Mia Milne's avatar

This reminds me of when a friend told me that some people online were saying we should call hurricanes "crisis storms" or something like that to connect it to climate change. As someone who grew up off the Gulf of Mexico, this idea bothered me so much. Climate change has made hurricanes worse but it didn't create them. They have always been a problem in the southeast region and always will be. Living there means accepting that risk.

I agree that we do no favors in addressing climate change by misrepresenting what can/could be done. We need to address the climate crisis and accpet that we only have so much control over nature.

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Ian's avatar

Well said. LA exists in an ecosystem in which forest and brush fires are a natural and fundamental presence. It's not so much that Angelenos forgot that fact. It's that they weren't properly taught it in the first place.

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