Gridlocked Cars Amid Wildfires Is an Enduring Image From LA
Plus: How war has changed technology on Israel’s farms, and the federal land where homes would be welcome.
A car burns in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Photographer: Kyle Grillot/BloombergA nightmare scenarios is unfolding in Los Angeles with several wildfires burning out of control. Businessweek editor Laura Bliss, a native of the city, writes about the images flooding our screens. Plus: The technological challenges facing Israeli farms in wartime, and how the federal government can add housing using land it already owns. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.
“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination,” wrote Joan Didion in 1967. “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” If she was right, Angelenos and the world were handed an awful illustration this week of what she considered the region’s defining features: the Santa Ana winds and fire.