Even on vacation in rural Northern California, it's hard to escape.
A week ago Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Then Monday was hotter. I was on vacation, hiking near the headwaters of the Sacramento River and lounging along the shores of nearby Castle Lake. But as usual, the climate crisis was on my mind. Partly because it was so damn hot, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. Partly because I finally finished reading 'The Power Broker,' a book about the many harms of freeway construction.
Even with construction underway, the Tohono O'odham Nation and the San Carlos Apache Tribe have tried unsuccessfully to block SunZia in court, arguing that the power line will 'cause irreparable harm to ancestral villages, sacred sites and burial grounds' where it passes through the San Pedro Valley, as Hayleigh Evans writes for the Arizona Republic. The tribes have been joined in their lawsuit by Archaeology Southwest and the Center for Biological Diversity.
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