Opinion & Commentary

Los Angeles Burning
Los Angeles is on fire. The Earth is telling us that climate change is here. Will we finally listen?
[Photo credit: Kyle Grillot for The New York Times]
Opinion & Commentary
Los Angeles is on fire. The Earth is telling us that climate change is here. Will we finally listen?
[Photo credit: Kyle Grillot for The New York Times]
I watched news report after news report
broadcasting the devastation of
the Los Angeles wildfires
on national television.
There was a sense of
hopelessness,
like there was nothing
A spark...
A flame...
A burst of burning light...
It grows and grows...
It's never ending...
It lights up the night sky...
The burns,
It hurts,
The fire dances with the trees,
With no stopping, it spreads.
A horrific sight, indeed.
In the wake of this inferno,
this fire was no news to me,
this has happened before,
the orange sky was vivid to me,
it was bright and scary.
many people thought it'd go away on itself,
If they didn’t last time why
Would they now
If last time the world was on fire
They put it out with water and wrote about it in the news and got themselves quoted