Bearing The Brunt of the Climate Crisis...

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(The Guardian) The unhoused are one group bearing the brunt of the climate crisis - particularly in California. Sam Levin reports: In a remote stretch of southern California desert, at least 200 unhoused people live outside, battling the extremes: blazing hot temperatures in the summer, snow in winter, rugged terrain inaccessible to many vehicles, a constant wind that blankets everything with silt, and no running water for miles.

For Candice Winfrey, the conditions almost proved deadly.

The 37-year-old lives in a camper in the Mojave desert, on the northern edge of Los Angeles county, miles from the nearest store. During a record-breaking heatwave in July 2020, she found herself running out of water. The jug of a gallon she had left had overheated, the water so hot it was barely drinkable. It was more than 110F (43C), and no one was around to help. She recalled laying in her tent, trying not to think about the heat exhaustion and dehydration overtaking her. “I thought I was gonna die. I was seeing the light. I was just waiting it out and praying to God that I’d make it.”

As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert

On the edge of northern Los Angeles county, at least 200 people are living in tents and trailers on remote, harsh terrain. ‘They treat us like we’re a lost cause,’ one resident said

www.theguardian.com

 

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Here's the thing about being homeless, you can be homeless anywhere! Why would you choose to be homeless in the desert? Save up your change and buy a bus ticket to a better climate.

 

[Webster]

Its' not just the homeless who are facing bad times climate-wise....

(The Guardian) Victoria Bekiempis has more on the heat wave that’s striking the United States this week: More than 100 million Americans are under either a heat warning about dangerous conditions or heat advisories amid record temperatures, as 85 major wildfires burn in 13 US states, scorching more than 3m acres.

Officials said on Tuesday that 14 new large fires were reported: seven in Texas, two in Alaska and two in Washington, as well as one each in Arizona, California and Idaho.

More than 6,800 wild-land firefighters, and other support staff, were deployed to fires across the US.

The sprawling blazes spread as record-high temperatures are poised to continue this week, leaving more than 100 million US residents under “excessive [heat] warnings or heat advisories”, the National Weather Service said Tuesday morning.

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The climate crisis has reached the point where some of the fastest-growing American cities are increasingly uninhabitable, Oliver Milman reports: The ferocious heatwave that is gripping much of the US south and west has highlighted an uncomfortable, ominous trend – people are continuing to flock to the cities that risk becoming unlivable due to the climate crisis.

Some of the fastest-growing cities in the US are among those currently being roasted by record temperatures that are baking the more than 100 million Americans under some sort of extreme heat warning. More than a dozen wildfires are engulfing areas from Texas to California and Alaska, with electricity blackouts feared for places where the grid is coming under severe strain.

San Antonio, Texas, which added more to its population than any other US city in the year to July 2021, has already had more than a dozen days over 100F this summer and hit 104F on Tuesday.

 

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No stranger to fires over here. This state is on fire somewhere all the time.

 

[Webster]

No stranger to fires over here. This state is on fire somewhere all the time.

Shouldn't be happening as much as it does though.

I mean, didn't there used to be a certain time of year when there would be wildfires instead of now all year long?

 

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Shouldn't be happening as much as it does though.

I mean, didn't there used to be a certain time of year when there would be wildfires instead of now all year long?

Seems like it. I am exaggerating though. You might not read about fires in December/January.