Is it Time to Stop Rebuilding After Wildfire?

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Many small California towns that were devastated by recent wildfires are determined to rebuild, such as Greenville, which is the community at the focus of the Los Angeles Times series "Rebuild,Reburn." But as climate change intensifies wildfires -- and political extremism -- the state is facing a dilemma as resources dwindle. How long will it be sustainable to send aid to rebuild towns that face continual danger from wildfires? We'll talk with journalists who investigated the unrest growing in rural towns and what people on both sides have to say. Guests: Erika D. Smith, columnist, Los Angeles Times. Anita Chabria, columnist, Los Angeles Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Coming up on Forum, should California rebuild every town after
0:56.1	wildfire? That's the question Erica D. Smith and Anita Chabrier explore in their new series
1:01.5	for the Los Angeles Times called Rebuild Reburn. For as long as anyone can remember, California
1:07.9	has rallied around people who've lost their livelihoods to disasters, especially to wildfires, they write.
1:13.6	But what if the overlapping issues of climate change, housing and affordability mean we can't do that anymore?
1:18.6	We'll talk to Smith and Chabrier about what they learned from time spent with residents of Greenville, which burned last year in the Dixie Fire.
1:25.6	Join us.
1:46.6	This is Borem. I'm Nina Kim. Greenville, the historic gold rush town north of Lake Tahoe that was destroyed by the Dixie fire last summer is where L.A. Times columnist Erica D. Smith and Anita Chabrier focused their attention for their investigative series called Rebuild Reburn.
1:57.5	It asks the hard question of whether it makes sense for California to rebuild towns after a devastating
2:04.0	wildfire when climate change means the risk is high that they will burn again. Erica D. Smith is
2:11.8	Metro columnist for the Times. Erica, thanks so much for coming back on Forum. Thanks for having me on.
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