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Charlie Loyd
Charlie Loyd works on satellite imagery at Mapbox and writes an irregular e-mail newsletter. He lives in the Bay Area.
John Locher / AP
A Disaster of Our Own Making
California was always going to burn—but it should have happened differently.
Charlie Loyd
November 20, 2018
