{"id":27373,"date":"2017-10-28T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27373"},"modified":"2017-10-28T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:20:43","slug":"museletter-305-puerto-rico-is-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27373","title":{"rendered":"Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/b>Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 93KB)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

My hometown of Santa Rosa, California, and surrounding communities were decimated by wildfires during the week of October 9, with entire neighborhoods completely erased. If you want a sense of how bad the fires were, watch this 11-minute video clip<\/a> put together by three Berkeley firefighters. For a more personal view of the consequences of the fires, check out this webcomic account<\/a>by the husband of the Sonoma County Director of Human Services (the couple lost their home). My wife Janet and I voluntarily evacuated our house at 4am on October 10 (we were just outside a mandatory evacuation zone), after bundling our four sleepy chickens into the back of our car. We were among the fortunate ones: we were able to return home late that same day. Meanwhile 19 residents of Santa Rosa had lost their lives (the death toll throughout the region stands at over 40) and hundreds\u2014including many of our friends as well as a former Post Carbon Institute employee and her family\u2014had lost homes and belongings. We’re glad to be spared, and wish the best for those not so fortunate.
\nRichard<\/em><\/p>\n

Puerto Rico is our Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

News reports tell of the devastation left by a direct hit from Category 4 Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans already coping with damage from Hurricane Irma, which grazed the island just days before, were slammed with an even stronger storm on September 20, bringing more than a foot of rain and maximum sustained winds of at least 140 miles per hour. There is still no electricity\u2014and likely won\u2019t be for weeks or months\u2014in this U.S. territory of 3.4 million people, many of whom also lack running water. Phone and internet service is likewise gone. Nearly all of Puerto Rico\u2019s greenery has been blown away, including trees and food crops.<\/p>\n

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Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 93KB) My hometown of Santa Rosa, California, and surrounding communities were decimated by wildfires during the week of October 9, with entire neighborhoods completely erased. If you want a sense of how bad the fires were, watch this 11-minute video clip put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,16039,11197,3824,1081,4849],"class_list":["post-27373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-hurricane-maria","tag-museletter","tag-puerto-rico","tag-richard-heinberg","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27374,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions\/27374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}