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But with escalating climate events we will have limited resources for mutual aid. What then? What happens next? How do we protect the Earth and those we love?

Meanwhile ordinary people are losing everything and are being left to their own devices. The only thing which gives me hope is mutual aid, people helping people which is getting them through right now. The kindness of strangers.

The capitalistic hell-scape is beyond belief, insurance companies cancelling fire insurances weeks before this tragedy, city budgets draining fire departments to fund more ****, oil and gas companies still asking for unfettered drilling, and apathetic administration about to take office.

It feels like a hollow day to wake up to, to realize yes we are safe for now but climate breakdown is coming for all of us. No one is insulated and yet there is no political will, at least not proportional to the scale of disasters we are witnessing in real time.

Local Mexican place we always visited after hikes - gone, parks where we walked our dog - gone, nature conservation center in Eaton canyon - probably gone, animals and the beautiful chaparral in the foothills - gone, everything people built with love and sweat - gone!

But the pace of climate catastrophe is staggering. It is coming at us so much more rapidly! #Eatonfire really brings home how rapidly things are breaking down for me. Many of our friends and colleagues in Altadena have lost their homes.

The geometry of this "Poincaré disk" inspired M.C. Escher's "Circle Limit" series of drawings. In this case the rulers are the fish-lengths. See how they get small as you approach the edge? (21/n)

Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"

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