by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
Jenny Durkan, the mayor of Seattle, a city whose air has been severely polluted by smoke from wildfires caused by anthropogenic climate change, exemplifies the total state of things in the USA today. She, like most in the city, cannot change urban habits, plans, and systems, even though the region, the country, the world is obviously getting dangerously warmer. One would think that any person who has lived in Seattle for the past 20 or 30 years would be alarmed i
Jenny Durkan, the mayor of Seattle, a city whose air has been severely polluted by smoke from wildfires caused by anthropogenic climate change, exemplifies the total state of things in the USA today. She, like most in the city, cannot change urban habits, plans, and systems, even though the region, the country, the world is obviously getting dangerously warmer. One would think that any person who has lived in Seattle for the past 20 or 30 years would be alarmed i