It’s the climate, stupid

The CEO of Mighty Earth attributes the severe fires in Southern California to a combination of rising temperatures, human expansion into wildlands, and poor management of flammable materials, framing these events as part of a global trend of climate-driven disasters.

• The fires in Los Angeles and surrounding areas are caused by a combination of three factors: increasing temperatures, the expansion of agriculture and human construction into wildlands, and the failure to manage the accumulation of flammable materials.
• The fires in Los Angeles are part of a broader global phenomenon of extreme fire events, with the previous year being the hottest on record and significant fires occurring in Canada, Australia, and Brazil.
• Mighty Earth's strategy to address these risks involves both the decarbonization of the economy and the protection and restoration of nature to increase the resilience of human settlements and ecosystems against floods and fires.

APA

Hurowitz, G. (2025). It’s the climate, stupid. Mighty Earth. https://mightyearth.org/article/its-the-climate-stupid/

Chicago

Hurowitz, Glenn. It’s the climate, stupid. Mighty Earth, 2025. https://mightyearth.org/article/its-the-climate-stupid/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{hurowitz2025its, author = {Hurowitz, Glenn}, title = {{It’s the climate, stupid}}, publisher = {Mighty Earth}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://mightyearth.org/article/its-the-climate-stupid/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }