Burning the Planet for Profits
Greenpeace
Offset, 2002
Luxembourg
25998
The Santa Ana Winds are a notorious hot air current that blow through Los Angeles every year in the Fall and Winter. Though known for usually being more intense than other winds in the region, the windstorm that raged through Los Angeles this week proved far deadlier than normal. In three days, the 30-100mph winds, in combination with an 8-month lack of rainfall, sparked many fires and has thus far burned at least 35,000 acres. Firefighters have been pulled to the Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Sylmar, the Hollywood Hills, Acton, and many other locations to try and save homes, businesses, and cultural heritage centers. Meanwhile, residents all over Los Angeles have been on high evacuation alert, choking on hazardous air of the combined fires under a darkened, smoke-plumed sky.
Year after year, CSPG shares posters from our collection warning against the link between profit greed and climate change disasters. Year after year, a new city burns or drowns in unprecedented circumstances. We must keep fighting against the burning of the Earth, our only home. It is the most existential threat of our time.
Resources and Resource Lists for Los Angeles Residents
Watch Duty - Fire Map
References
Los Angeles fires: climate science, evacuation zones, and an absent mayor | Los Angeles Public Press
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