ClimateAdam | California Wildfires: Fighting Climate Change @ClimateAdam | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Climate change's impacts hit the most vulnerable the hardest. But who do we ask to pick up the pieces? In California, wildfires have been exacerbated by global warming. But they are being tackled by prison inmates, who are paid just a few dollars a day and have little to gain from the experience.

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==MORE INFO==

Climate concern:
climateoutreach.org/concern-about-climate-change-has-gone-up-during-covid-pandemic
nytimes.com/2020/08/24/climate/climate-change-survey-voters.html
American criminal justice system:
washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/07/yes-u-s-locks-people-up-at-a-higher-rate-than-any-other-country
washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/26/america-has-locked-up-so-many-black-people-it-has-warped-our-sense-of-reality
qz.com/1233966/new-data-clearly-illustrate-the-poverty-to-prison-pipeline
Fires:
nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/california-fires.html

kqed.org/science/1968913/how-climate-change-is-contributing-to-californias-bad-fire-seasons
Firefighters:
nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/california-wildfires-prisoners.html
edition.cnn.com/2019/10/31/us/prison-inmates-fight-california-fires-trnd/index.html
fortune.com/2019/11/01/california-prisoners-fighting-wildfires
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887

==CREDITS==

Jones Fire Evacuations in Nevada County California - Cal OES
Largest Wildfire in California History Continues to Grow - Cal OES
EVACUATING Our NEW HOUSE During Wild Fire - SO SCARY! - Tyson & Hayley
fire sound by luffy
Firefighter photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prison bars photo by William Warby