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Related Off-site Links:
As Apocalyptic Fires Torch Los Angeles, Climate Campaigners Say “Big Oil Did This” – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, January 9, 2025).
Los Angeles Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead and Over 130,000 Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse” – Democracy Now! (January 9, 2025).
How Big Oil Made It Harder to Fight the Los Angeles Fires – Freddy Brewster and Lucy Dean Stockton (TruthOut, January 9, 2025).
The Big Bang, Horrifying LA Fires, and Our Self-Destructive Species – Bill McKibben (Common Dreams, January 9, 2025).
“This Is Unprecedented”: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, January 8, 2025).
Hollywood Hills Fire Breaks Out as Deadly Wildfires Burn Out of Control Across Los Angeles Area – Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden and Julie Watson (AP News, January 8, 2025).
Trump’s and Musk’s Disgusting Response to California Fires – Malcolm Ferguson (The New Republic, January 8, 2025).
Critics Say Trump Got “Nothing Right” About Causes of L.A. Wildfires – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, January 9, 2025).
Preening While L.A. Burns: Biden, Trump and Newsom’s Response Shows It’s All About Them – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, January 9, 2025).
Amid Los Angeles Inferno, Home Insurers Under Fire for Policy Cancellations – Ken Klippenstein (KenKlippenstein.com, January 9, 2025).
Endless Stream of Climate Disasters Bolsters Demand to “Make Polluters Pay” – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, September 30, 2024).
Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Blamed as Record Heat Scorches Planet – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, August 8, 2024).
Why Science Backs a Fossil Fuel Phase Out – Timmon Wallace (Common Dreams, December 12, 2023).
“Cabal of Oil Producers”: Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson Slams Corporate Capture of COP28 – Democracy Now! (December 7, 2023).
Big Oil Wins Big at COP28 in Dubai – Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (Democracy Now!, December 14, 2023).

UPDATES: The Architects of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation – Katya Schwenk (The Lever, January 10, 2025).
Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape – Democracy Now! (January 10, 2025).
“Insatiable Greed”: Richest 1% Have Already Burned Through Their Carbon Limit for 2025 – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, January 10, 2025).
The Los Angeles Fires Didn’t Have to Be This Bad – Ben Burgis (Jacobin, January 10, 2025).
Ah, Los Angeles – Marianne Williamson (Transform, January 10, 2025).
Los Angeles Wildfires Have Become Perfect Fuel for Trump and Climate Denial – Matthew Rozsa (Salon, January 11, 2025).
Paradise Lost: The Burning of L.A. Is Not Just a Natural Disaster. It’s a Man-Made Catastrophe – The Free Press (January 11, 2025).
The Fires in Gaza Are the Fires in Los Angeles – Aaron Kirshenbaum (Common Dreams, January 11, 2025).
L.A. Hellscape Fueled by Oligarch Greed and Rigged Politics – Krystal Ball (Breaking Points, January 13, 2025).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Something to Think About – October 8, 2024
• Peter Kalmus on Fossil-fueled Climate Change and Hurricane Helene
• Memes of the Times
• COP28: “Mend It, Don’t End It”
• Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Joins NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels
• Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – July 7, 2023
• “Smoke Plume” in Minneapolis
• Capital Weather Gang: Quote of the Day – June 7, 2023
• Frances Moore Lappé: Quote of the Day – May 22, 2023
• “It Is in Our Hands”
• George Monbiot: Quote of the Day – July 21, 2022
• Declaration of Interdependence
• Biophilia, the God Pan, and a Baboon Named Scott
• Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – July 1, 2021
• The Stakes Have Shifted
• The Link Between Destruction of Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Something to Think About – February 10, 2020
• In Australia, “the Land As We Know It Is No More”
• Greta Thunberg: Quote of the Day – September 23, 2019
• Five Powerful Responses to the Amazon Fires
• Greta Thunberg: Quote of the Day – March 16, 2019
• As the World Burns, Calls for a “Green New Deal”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – August 29, 2017
• The People’s Climate Solidarity March – Minneapolis, 4/29/17
• “It Is All Connected”
• Standing Together
• Standing in Prayer and Solidarity with the Water Protectors of Standing Rock
• The Paris Climate Talks, Multilateralism, and a “New Approach to Climate Action”
• Rachel Smolker: Quote of the Day – September 19, 2014
• Superstorm Sandy: A “Wake-Up Call” on Climate Change
• Chris Hedges: Quote of the Day – May 31, 2011