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Last year, California had its first million-acre blaze, the August Complex Fire, which burned from Northern California to Washington with such intensity that the smoke blotted out the sun, turned the sky orange, and reached as far as New York City.
The west coast wildfire season that used to run from June until October now begins in May and stretches into January. A record 4.2 million acres were scorched in California alone in 2020, an area the size of Connecticut. Experts estimated direct damages at up to $20 billion. Amid all that, some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs feel they're the only thing standing between climate change and the charred landscape of tomorrow.
"We exist at the intersection of climate change, dysfunctional government, and technology," says Robert Shear, co-founder of Zonehaven, an emergency collaboration platform for first responders and the public. "We all know we're not going to rely on our government to save us from climate change. The solution has to be community-led. It's up to us to solve this."
Read our story to learn how startups are fighting deadly wildfires with technology, and why they keep getting burned by hesitant investors and governments. |
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