Fire is raging in Ventura county - and climate change has its latest victims | Steven Thrasher

Among the devastation, much affordable housing has been lost, leaving poor people without homes - and without hope of help from the federal governmentAn unbearable amount of Ventura county in Southern California, where I was born and raised, is simply gone. And as I hear about site after site from my childhood simply disappearing into scorched earth, I am realizing that climate change is not only erasing the present, it is also destroying the physical touchstones to my own past. Related: Wildfire rages in southern California - in pictures Continue reading...