unfightable<\/a>\u201d fires. The cognitive incoherence makes my head hurt.<\/p>\nTo be fair, this kind of incoherence is hardly confined to the above examples. When not chasing the dark antics of the Trump-Musk shit show, the mainstream conversation is fixated on these same issues: in short, how to get back to normal and maintain the city, and the life, Angelenos have known. As if the record heat, droughts, and wildfires won\u2019t keep on getting worse with each fraction of a degree of warming, rendering today\u2019s \u201cresilience\u201d obsolete. As if communities at the wildland-urban interface aren\u2019t already uninsurable against unfightable fires, requiring a massive public intervention. As if some kind of retreat, planned or otherwise, won\u2019t be necessary\u2014as it already is in places like coastal Florida and across large swaths of the planet, most disastrously in the Global South, where the conditions of life are fast becoming untenable and the capacity to relocate, rebuild, and adapt is all but nonexistent. As if this \u201cnew normal\u201d of climate extremes isn\u2019t itself a fleeting moment on the fossil-fueled way to uninhabitability.<\/p>\n