Remember that some of LA's most vulnerable people live in this riverbed. This is an environmental justice issue, too.https://twitter.com/jonlloydla/status/832740179748065280 …
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We tend to think of climate change as heavy rain and flooding. It's not just that. Climate change contributes to severe drought, too.
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Because it was so dry for so long in LA, the population of people living in river bed grew. Homeless people here: disproportionately black.
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People living in the river bed are used to a completely dry riverbed for close to a decade now. Some have never seen a flash flood there.
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No one sat around, thought hey! let's make homeless people live in the riverbed. It's the result of poor planning/not thinking about equity.
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This kind of thing exists everywhere. Unless we consciously plan for equity, we keep getting inequity. Climate change only makes it worse.
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