Young people, Biden and climate change

Flames from the Camp fire burn near a home atop a ridge near Big Bend, California in 2018. — AFP

FOR me, it is still a vivid memory – sitting on my living room couch in the summer of 2018, taking in the news coverage of the California wildfires that ravaged the West Coast.

I watched as the bright orange conflagration scorched everything in its path. I watched as firefighters desperately tried to tame the fire. And I watched as terrified people ran from their crumbling houses, covering their faces to avoid inhaling the smoke.