#and before anyone starts yapping about how California is a blue state

[food-for-daisies]

Until the United States can, on a cultural scale, reframe climate change as a failing of not only the government, but of class, compassion, and common sense, the country will always be vulnerable to disaster.

The Los Angeles wildfires didn’t have to happen. It’s not an accident that they’ve escalated so dramatically. Government action, informed forestry, and increased mitigation planning could have prevented this historic loss of life and property, and the same goes for every other disaster we’ve witnessed/experienced this year. Why are our aid organizations underfunded? Why are our cities so vulnerable? Why is our infrastructure so weak? Why, in the midst of disaster, are our politicians attacking our most essential resources instead of working with their fellows to ways to improve the response system? To help? Isn’t that supposed their job?? What are we (the taxpayers) paying them for???

There are a thousand actions and a thousand questions that could have prevented this. You should be angry if your representatives didn’t ask, didn’t act. The planet’s a team sport, and they’re not playing.