Opinion: Will drought and climate change feed more extremism in the West?
It’s sometimes thought that worsening wildfires, droughts and farming conditions — products of climate change — will lead to more conflicts and extremism, including in the West. Imagine a repeat of lawless mobs confronting and terrorizing federal land managers, as occurred at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, and could happen again amid the Klamath Basin water crisis…
-Written by Stuart Leavenworth, LA Times’ California Enterprise Editor.Related article:
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