Leisure and Terror Are Increasingly Juxtaposed
Scenes like those that played out at Sierra-at-Tahoe are also becoming the bizarre normal of life in the era of climate change. Turkish and Greek beachgoers had a front-row seat to explosive wildfires there recently, smoke-filled skies have been the backdrop for tourist photos in Australia during the 2019-20 bushfire season, and the list goes on.
It reinforces what the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report made clear: Nowhere is safe as long as we keep burning fossil fuels.
Updated, 8/30/21, 4:55 p.m. ET: This post has been updated with new information about the Caldor Fire entering the Tahoe basin.
