Fire, Wind & Fire

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Wildfires raged on over the weekend in the West, with millions of acres burned, thousands displaced, and dozens of lives lost. Aside from fighting climate change, one of the most effective ways to manage these fires is regular controlled burns, which is something indigenous tribes were doing for centuries.

Two meat processing facilities were fined a measly total of $29,000 after government regulators at OSHA determined that the plants didn’t do enough to protect workers. OSHA has gotten almost 10,000 Covid-related workplace safety requests so far, and these are the only two companies that have been cited and fined.

And in headlines: controversies surrounding Disney’s “Mulan,” Israel imposes a second nation-wide lockdown, and Mike Bloomberg pledges to donate 100 million to Joe Biden’s Florida campaign.

Show links:

"They Know How To Prevent Forest Fires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?" https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen

"To Manage Wildfire, California Looks To What Tribes Have Known All Along" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along

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0:00.0	It's Monday, September 14th. I'm Kila Hughes.
0:09.4	And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day which you can also call the Masked Speaker.
0:14.2	Yeah, we're not doing character masks like they do in the Masked Singer though.
0:17.2	It's mostly just solid colors like you know a friendly light blue or something.
0:21.2	Speak for yourself. I'm dressed head to toe as a giant bee.
0:24.0	Oh okay, well we talked about this.
0:34.6	On today's show it has been six months since a national emergency was declared for the pandemic so
0:38.8	we will look at where things stand now than some headlines.
0:42.0	But first the latest.
0:43.4	Guy, I drove 600 miles up and down this state. I never escaped the smoke. We have thousands of
0:49.8	people who have lost their homes. I could never have envisioned this.
0:54.5	That was Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley speaking yesterday on the impact of the fires in his home state
0:59.2	and that's where we're going to start today. The West Coast wildfires have been raging on which
1:03.2	my lungs and eyes can attest is not great. But beyond my own ref go of it there's more to cover.
1:09.4	At the time of recording at least 25 people have died in the fires with the death toll expected to
1:13.6	rise. The air pollution has been so bad that it temporarily broke the systems that monitor air
1:18.0	quality in Washington state. More than three million acres in California, one million in Oregon
1:22.8	and 600,000 in Washington have been burned. Thousands have been displaced and while Democrats have
1:27.6	been quick to point the climate change as a reason for the spread and size of the fires.
1:31.9	Although some of the top Democrats have been slower on the green new deal uptake.
1:35.6	Donald Trump is content to hardly mention it though he has a trip scheduled to California today.
1:40.5	Biden is also set to speak on this today.
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