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A Bad Prequel

2020 is a bad climate change prequel

Venkatesh Rao
Sep 12, 2020
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Like everywhere else on the West Coast of the United States, Los Angeles is sporting a variety of surreal Instagram filters these days. Yesterday, the skies were a light peach. Not quite the apocalyptic orange that San Francisco enjoyed, but pretty dramatic. Today, the light has mostly been towards the grey end of the palette, and the air quality is bad…

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