For weeks, a battery of atmospheric rivers has bombarded California, destroying roads, triggering mudslides, and flooding properties and farms—all that following years drought and wildfires. This week, Contained in the Hive is joined by Yana Garcia, California’s secretary of environmental safety, who describes the damages wrought by these excessive storms, and explains what California is doing about it—together with dealing with off with oil firms over the fossil gas emissions the state argues have intensified climate occasions in California and past. Garcia was an environmental justice lawyer earlier than changing into head of the state’s Environmental Safety Company, and as a local Californian, describes the climate modifications she’s noticed firsthand rising up in Oakland, and the way in which ahead within the combat to right the climatological steadiness (plus, she tells us what her mysterious tattoos imply).
