Drought, strong winds, and increasingly hot days are all symptoms of climate change, leading to these devastating fires that grow in frequency and scale and are followed by powerful floods.
I'm always amazed how quickly city, county, state, and federal resources are allocated to deal with these catastrophic events. We are talking about millions of dollars for every single incident. It's even more impressive how coordinated, efficient, and laser-focus all the involved agencies are. And I can't help but wonder why the same can't be done to pursue climate action? Why can't local, state, and federal agencies act in unison to allocate and deploy resources to fight climate change and prevent future catastrophic events?
Unfortunately, whether it's at the city, state, or national level, our representatives are not willing to fund climate action sufficiently and often, at all. They prefer photo ops with the incident management teams in times of emergency over prevention by legislating climate action in their budget bills. They are either politically corrupt or if they are not bought by corporations, they simply lack courage and clarity of conviction.
We had enough of “blah blah” as Greta Thunberg put it when she called out world leaders for their failure to act. We had enough goal setting and plan drafting. We had enough seminars and speeches and pledges. We need to implement programs with teeth and funding behind them. It's clear that no significant action will be taken by this Congress. We have no other choice but to organize locally and pass hundreds of city-level Green Transition Initiatives.
If you can't lead organizing efforts but want to support our work of supporting leaders running Green Transition Initiatives, make a generous contribution. Our planet is worth it. 
