That fantasy of Hawaii as an 'escape from it all' should be forever punctured — a reminder that no place is safe from the damage humans have done to the atmosphere.
In what Hawaii Gov. Josh Green called the worst natural disaster in Hawaii’s history, at least 55 are dead and more than 1,000 are missing.
As terrible as the numbers and images emerging from the fire have been, it would be disingenuous to call them shocking. Climate change-related death tolls and community devastation have become horrifyingly common. In recent years, wildfires have ravaged Western states and their residents; increasingly strong storm patterns have pounded the East and the South; and deadly “heat domes” have clamped over the Southwest and Midwest.
Yet even as people burn, drown, die from heat or falling debris, even as this country continues to lose homes, landmarks, communities and businesses, industry leaders and elected officials continue to use “climate change” as a political football.Fires across Maui have destroyed buildings and lead to at least six deaths. Photos from space show the scale of the destruction.
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