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Today we’re bringing you the second episode of Breaking History, our brand-new podcast, in which I go back in time—to make sense of the present. The
When I think about the recent tragedy of the California fires—and the questions we all have about what went wrong—there is one story I keep coming back to.
A few years ago, an amateur botanist was hiking above the Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles when he noticed several shrubs had been flattened by construction work. What he had stumbled across was an effort by the LA Department of Water and Power to replace the wooden poles of power lines with steel ones. The old ones, you see, were a fire hazard.
But the hiker was more worried about those flattened shrubs, which turned out to be a rare plant called a milk vetch. And so he rallied environmental groups—which ensured that the fire safety project got put on pause.
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Author: Eli Lake
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