Opinion: Climate change is bankrupting California’s ecosystems
[G]lobal warming is not going away. Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its most alarming report yet: Earth is on the edge of ecological bankruptcy. That’s what California is facing this summer with record heat, severe drought, record fires, snow sublimation, record low reservoir levels, dry wells, communities without safe drinking water, deaths of salmon and whales, poisonous algae growth in lakes and streams, and record glacier melt.
-Written by Martha Davis, the former assistant general manager for policy at the Inland Empire Utilities Agency and former executive director of the Mono Lake Committee.