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Iykyk. Daniel Swain is one of the most clear-headed and easy-to-understand weather experts out there. If you’re having trouble grokking 1) how a fire event like this could happen in the first place and 2) why it is “different” as compared to the previously-known pattern of events in fire-prone Southern California, this is worth your time.
It’s also available as a podcast, but I would really recommend watching for some of the footage Swain references.
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On a lighter, heartwarming note, Cabel Sasser’s talk from this year’s final XOXO Festival is the best 20 minutes you’ll spend on the internet today (or possibly any day). I was lucky enough to be in the audience for it and even in rewatching (several times!), I still get all the feels. Go into it with as little context as possible, but once you’ve watched it, be sure to check out the companion site that Cabel built.
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To call myself “young” at this point would be to strain credulity, but I am technically an “elder Millennial” and everything Scott talks about here resonates with me and everyone I know in the generations below me. We’re going to be left holding the bag with fewer meaningful ways to improve our lives than our parents (or their parents) ever had—and those are the folks still in control of our futures.
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As a cyclist in Los Angeles it can almost be torture to see what other cities have done to embrace multi-modal transit. But at the same time, we need to dream. What Utrecht has acheived in such a short amount of time is inspiring.