![]() Elsewhere, mere weeks after unprecedented heat waves scorched the country this spring, apocalyptic floods began engulfing Pakistan and are ongoing. Tectonic plates rumble frequently, reminding us that the Hayward fault underneath us is due to cause a major earthquake. Seasons of drought are starting to blur into one long era of aridification. In some cities, houses are succumbing to lengthening wildfire seasons, while people living in tents breathe air poisoned by the flames. I live in California’s East Bay, where disaster is a constant threat. Plagues, droughts, floods, toxic air and water, wars, massacres, famines, earthquakes, heat waves, wildfires, recessions, dust storms, despotism - slow-motion nightmares are crashing into fast-moving catastrophes, each one amplifying the next. The era we are now in the midst of might be defined, most notably, by the omnipresence of disaster.
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