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Two entities fuse to signify Californian landscape grandeur: the Pacific and the trees. But in our changing climate, infernos visited on forests by wildfires are destroying these ancient groves.
"Get out and see California’s trees for yourself," J. Matt writes. "It's a way of touching the sublime."
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"It’s fair to ask whether we should rebuild in disaster-prone areas; but aren’t we all vulnerable now?"
In 2017, two years after the Valley Fire hit Lake County, CA, residents were still struggling to rebuild. As climate-related disasters magnify, what is our collective responsibility to survivors?
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Humans intervene in landscapes at all scales, speeding things up, slowing them down and generating cascading effects far beyond our control.
In a sense we've refashioned time itself, altering environmental rhythms & cycles to meet infrastructural needs. We try to trick time, but the trick is on us.
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Two entities fuse to signify Californian landscape grandeur: the Pacific and the trees. But in our changing climate, infernos visited on forests by wildfires are destroying these ancient groves.
"Get out and see California’s trees for yourself," J. Matt writes. "It's a way of touching the sublime."
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As the risks of a changing climate worsen, some Americans will opt to leave their homes; others will be forced to flee. Where will they go?
Two recent books by climate reporters tell an unsettling story of displacement and retreat already underway. What will it take to create true climate havens?
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"It’s fair to ask whether we should rebuild in disaster-prone areas; but aren’t we all vulnerable now?"
In 2017, two years after the Valley Fire hit Lake County, CA, residents were still struggling to rebuild. As climate-related disasters magnify, what is our collective responsibility to survivors?
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In 2018, the deadliest wildfire in California history devastated the small town of Paradise. Five years later, residents were in good spirits, though a total recovery will take time. How is the community honoring the people and place they lost? And how are they preparing for the next blaze?
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This is the 5th article in "An Unfinished Atlas," a series bringing together scholars, cultural critics, essayists, and novelists of color to enrich the cultural record of place-based narratives across what we call North America.
Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, D.C.
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As an independent journal, we don’t publish for clicks, for advertisers, or for special interests. Everything you read in Places is for you and free to you — no ads, no paywalls, no nonsense.
As the year ends, we hope you'll consider sustaining nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment.
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As an independent journal, we don’t publish for clicks, for advertisers, or for special interests. Everything you read in Places is for you and free to you — no ads, no paywalls, no nonsense.
As the year ends, we hope you'll consider sustaining nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment.
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Buoyed by positive response from our contributors and readers, we then published another ambitious series, "Field Notes: Repair," featuring brief dispatches from more than 100 scholars, designers, artists, and activists who are engaging in vital reparative work around the world.
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Early in the year, we launched "Repair Manual," a quintet of searching essays that explore the shift from building the world to repairing the world. We asked how professions premised on carbon consumption might adapt to a world in which maintenance will be more valuable than growth.