Dear John,

As community members across the West pick up the pieces from this devastating wildfire season, we must chart a path towards a just transition away from the destructive practices that brought us here. Like most aspects of the climate crisis, it’s the most vulnerable among us who are disproportionately impacted by wildfire, while people with money and resources are insulated from its effects. As these impacts continue to play out, it is not a question of whether our communities will continue to experience wildfire, but of how we prepare for them and how we show up to protect those on the frontlines of the crisis.

Currently, powerful logging interests are already hard at work using this humanitarian crisis as an opportunity to peddle false-solutions including landscape-level logging projects. Sadly, these so-called “solutions” are both ineffective and destructive, and divert limited resources from meaningful community wildfire preparedness.

Despite the odds, impacted communities at the frontlines of this season’s wildfires are banding together, building inspiring networks of mutual aid and stepping up hand-in-hand to create solutions to protect lives and homes.

Join Power Shift Network and partners for a conversation about this summer’s unprecedented wildfires and how we can move forward. This discussion is separate from Power Shift Network’s fall webinar series (which you can get more info on here).

In this discussion, we will hear from the voices of those who have been most impacted, and explore effective, community-centered solutions towards future wildfire safety. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of this year’s wildfire crisis and learn how they can join frontline community members — firefighters, indigenous fire practitioners and forest, climate, health, and environmental justice advocates — in forwarding a just transition to an equitable, safe and climate-smart future.

Hope to see you there!

Zahira Chaudhry, Development and Communications Director at PSN