Gov. Jerry Brown warned that the state’s fire seasons will continue to get longer and more volatile, and called for a global fight against climate change after visiting devastated parts of Ventura County on Saturday morning.
“This is the new normal,” Brown said, in a news conference after his tour. “We’re facing a new reality where fires threaten peoples’ lives, their properties, their neighborhoods and cost billions and billions of dollars. We have to have the resources to combat the fires, and also have to invest in managing our vegetation and forests and all the ways we dwell in this very wonderful place — but a place that’s getting hotter.”
“We have to respond, but we have to plan what we can do in the forests and neighborhoods,” Brown said. “And we also have to deal with the larger challenge, which is climate change itself. I know that’s maybe a little remote, but it’s real and we’re experiencing what it’s going to look like on a very regular basis. That requires people everywhere in the whole world to pull together in the largest sense possible and take the heroic action we need to make our communities livable now and in the distant future.”
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