2021 Won’t Magically Make Everything Better

We can’t wait; we need to change now

Rod Rondeaux looks skyward through thick smoke from the CZU August Lightning Complex fire on Empire Grade in Santa Cruz, California, on August 22, 2020. Photo: Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

After freak lightning strikes peppered the state last week and sparked over 350 fires, Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynnette Round told the East Bay Times that “all the citizens in California [should] be ready to go if there is a wildfire.”