Another Rising Cost of Climate Change: PG&E’s Blackouts, Now Needed to Prevent Wildfires

With wildfires forcing evacuations in the Los Angeles hills and Sonoma County, and parts of California under an “extreme red flag warning,” the state’s largest electric utility triggered another preemptive blackout, costing billions as businesses and schools shut down. It vividly illustrates how the costs of failing to address climate change reach far wider than the property lost to the flames.