Climate Change, Politics & the LA Wildfire Crisis

Key resources used to build this episode

• “The Santa Anas” by Joan Didion

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Collection of essays by Joan Didion

• Currently Active Incidents, Cal Fire

• “Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change”, Advancing Earth and Space Sciences

• “Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires” - UNEP & GRID-Ardenal Report

• “Wildfire climate connection”, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• U.S. Drought Monitor, California

• “Chinatown”, Film by Roman Polanski (1974)

• "Pistachio Wars", Film by Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham

• “The pistachio billionaires who guzzle more water than all of LA”

• “Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined”, 2016 investigation Report by Mother Jones

• “Quiet Fire”, The Nature Conservancy

• 1850 California Act for the Government and Protection of Indians

• “Global warming fuels bark beetles, tree-killing menaces”, Yale Climate Connections

• How the Indigenous practice of ‘good fire’ can help our forests thrive, University of California

• “Illilouette Creek Basin Research and Publications”, UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources

• “Wildfire and the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)”, U.S. Fire Administration

• “Acorns and Native American Culture“, Visit California

• “Why is Los Angeles on fire?”, The Take, Al Jazeera Podcast

• “People, climate change make even forests carbon emitters”, AL Jazeera

• “The great hypocrisy of California using Indigenous practices to curb wildfires“, Vox Archives

• “Climate Change & Environment Nexus Brief: Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”, weADAPT

  
  MENTAL HEALTH & CHILD CARE RESOURCES

  • Integrative Psychotherapy Group, at (310) 461-4393 or info@ipgtherapy.com or visit their online website.

  • PTSD: National Center for PTSD, at 800-698-2411 or Contact online through Ask VA

  • California Hope, at (833) 317-HOPE or visit CalHope.org

  • Bounceback Now (mobile app) at +1 888-889-1109 or email bbn@musc.edu or visit https://www.bouncebacknow.org/contact/

  • LA County 24/7 Mental Health Helpline: Call 800-854-7771 for immediate assistance

  • National Child Traumatic Stress Network at (310) 235-2633 or email info@nctsn.org.

  • Nicole Arzt, a Long Beach-based therapist, is also compiling a list of providers offering pro bono therapy

  • YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES, Contact afterschool@ymcaLA.org

  • Free Cribs – Babyletto

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