![]() Maybe no one does until it happens, even though we're obviously the future for significant parts of humanity. I never imagined myself among the 55 million people worldwide whose lives have already been upended by climate change. One of them was Greenville, California, a town founded in the Gold Rush era of the nineteenth century, where I happen to live. Since then, it's scorched a landscape nearly the size of Delaware, destroyed 678 houses and decimated several communities in Indian Valley, where I've been for 46 years. That night I became a climate refugee, evacuated from my house thanks to the Dixie Fire. I was lucky to make it home before burning debris closed the roads. I then drove 25 miles to a dental appointment. I sent the interview to an online transcription service, walked down the steps of my second-floor office and a block to the Greenville post office, where I mailed a check to California Fair Plan for homeowners' fire insurance. on July 22nd, I interviewed a New York University professor about using autonomous robots, drones, and other unmanned devices to suppress structural and wildland fires. ![]() This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
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