I wrote about the fires and how no amount of empathy or understanding can adequately prepare you for the psychological, physical and sensory trauma of having the world immolate before your eyes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/california-fires.html

Wanted to address what I think is a super important bit of criticism (& something i didnt address) which is that natural wildfires are also essential/replenishing by no means uniformly bad! Anyhow, I'd direct you to this thread and to follow @JamesCTobias https://twitter.com/JamesCTobias/status/1303789980481974276?s=20

Also really appreciated this piece & way it centers the native american experience. This issue is complex and my piece was really trying to center the psychological trauma of living through it right now but we should be careful as always of easy narratives https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along