California Wildfires Are A Wake-Up Call For Climate Change Adaptation

The wildfire disaster in Los Angeles underscores the importance of climate change adaptation. We built our infrastructure for a world that no longer exists.

Firefighters battling the inferno in Pacific Palisades, an upscale community in Los Angeles.CAL FIRE_Official, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

One quarter of a trillion dollars. This is AccuWeather’s estimate of the cost of damages and economic loss from the L.A. wildfires, which continue to rage as I write. If this estimate turns out to be accurate…