Destruction with little warning and no mercy becomes the norm as the world overheats
The infrared satellite images confirm the scale of widespread destruction that has unfolded in a matter of days. But what encapsulates the human cost of this particular catastrophe is the video footage of lost neighbourhoods; the photographs of razed homes; and audio from people brutally robbed of their homes, prized possessions and local businesses.
“Record-breaking wildfires are becoming more frequent, and the current California wildfires are especially alarming, occurring outside the usual fire season – May to October,” says Dr Chris Mays, an expert in wildfires, based at University College Cork. There is no silver bullet. Increasingly, it will need scaled-up supports for those who will be at the cutting edge of the crisis, whose homes and livelihoods will be lost in an instant, or the millions who inevitably will be subjected to forced migration.
The huge effort needed to contain the wildfires has been undermined by constant attacks from the sidelines, those who have used disinformation, wild claims, conspiracy theories and extremist culture war tropes.
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