This piece was done for the The New Republic's podcast "The Politics of Everything". I got a chance to reflect on being originally from California and what it means to be a Californian in the times of unprecedented wildfires that are only revealing more and more inequality amongst those who live there. Give this episode a listen, historian and urban theorist Mike Davis talks about decades of poor decisions in residential development and fire management that led us here. In the second segment, Naomi Klein, the author of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, explores how the converging disasters of 2020 should shape the future of climate policy. Thank you to the AD on this project Rob A. Di Ieso, Jr. for for such a cool project and letting me draw the California Grizzly as the harbinger of extinction and continued destruction of life and land in CA. ! You can listen to the podcast episode here.
