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Posted on 7 January 2021
By Mia Samson, Communications Volunteer
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An Interview with SFFD Captain Julie Mau
The Sierra Club has many initiatives related to clean energy and climate change. These initiatives are imperative because climate change is already impacting our environment and the very livelihood of our fellow residents in California. A current impact of climate change that many of us have witnessed has been the increase in California wildfires.
Since the 1970s, the wildfire season in California has been growing increasingly worse year over year due to extended drought seasons and dry forestry combined with increasingly hotter temperatures. CalFire reports that since the beginning of 2020, the wildfires have burned over 3.1 million acres in California. This year, the amount of acres burned is 26 times higher than the acres burned in 2019 for the same period.