January 2025. <br />Huge wildfires strike Los Angelese, seen here burning into their fifth day. <br />While Los Angeles is no stranger to wildfire, they used to burn only in the summer months, fanned by the dry Santa Anna winds. <br />These wildfires are burning in the heart of winter, and in just the first five days have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres. <br />They have displaced equivalent numbers of people, destroyed around 20,000 structures many of which were homes, and killed dozens of people. <br />Particularly hard hit is the Pacific Palisades area to the west of the city and Altadena in the north. <br />A massive firefighting effort is underway on the ground and in the air. <br />Dozens of helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft are dropping water and flame-retardant to help contain the fires. <br />This is shaping up to be one of the most devastating fires in the region with potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. <br />While wildfires are natural to this region, the changing climate has exacerbated them, particularly through a phenomena called weather-whiplashing. <br />In weather whip-lash, extreme rainfall exacerbates plant growth and then extreme heat kills off the plants, creating a huge source of tinder-dry fuel. <br />While firefighters hope for weather changes to help bring the fires under control, reigning-in climate change is a whole different story. <br />Climate change is a man-made catastrophe that has been growing for centuries. <br />To resolve this crisis we need a worldview that can properly frame the problem and the response. <br />Vita Worldview is a sustainable life philosophy that combines ecoscience with ecospirituality to provide the knowledge and drive to sort this climate change problem once and for all. <br />Read Vita Worldview today and become part of the movement to survive the 21st Century and thrive thereafter. <br /><br />vitasapien.org
