Even as wildfires rage more frequently and more intensely than ever before, our news outlets still have enormous difficulty in covering the problem accurately. The sad fact is that some of the world’s print and broadcast media are financially beholden to fossil-fuel interests, which means that compelling evidence of climate change will almost always be offered with a protective coating of false equivalence.

When we’re faced with imminent and significant dangers to individuals and communities, it is absolutely crucial to form our civic responses on a foundation of knowledge, insight, and expertise. America’s long tradition of populist anti-intellectualism has enabled a huge history of scandals, errors, and outright folly that should — but probably won’t — serve as a warning to us all

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