Wallace-Wells: East Coast Unprepared for Wildfires
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- Wildfires produced orange skies on the East Coast in 2023, 2025, and again in 2026, marking the third such event in recent years.
- David Wallace-Wells, writing in The New York Times Opinion section, argues the East Coast is 'totally unequipped' for the next climate disaster, with the piece cutting off mid-sentence about the compounding consequences of each event.
Why it matters: Wallace-Wells frames a pattern of three wildfire-driven orange-sky events within roughly three years as evidence of systemic East Coast unpreparedness for climate disasters — a claim that matters because it links recurring visible events to a broader infrastructure and policy gap.
