I’m Permanently Damaged, Thanks to Climate Change
<p>Today — November 8th — is the fifth “anniversary” of the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people, destroyed 14,000 homes, and wiped the town of Paradise, California off the map.</p>
<p>And recently — five years in — I’ve come to realize that I am permanently damaged, permanently broken, because of my experience in the Camp Fire.</p>
<p>I always thought — assumed really — that I would heal, eventually, and go back to “normal”, to the old, pre-fire, me.</p>
<p>But I realize now that that may never happen. It probably won’t.</p>
<p>Just as climate change survivors never fully recover economically from a climate disaster, it turns out that they may also never fully recover mentally or emotionally from a climate disaster either.</p>
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