Commentary: The Caring Middle can save the environment
by Cynthia Barnett, Los Angeles Times
Aug 23, 2018
4 minutes
At the populous edges of the nation, red, color of danger, billows through forest and sea. The uncontrolled wildfires in California and red tide in Florida have darkened summer in the states named for gold and sunshine. Burned-up homes and belly-up marine life stretch for miles in some of America's most famous respites, emptying the white-canvas tents of Yosemite and the white-sand beaches of southwest Florida.
Wildfires and toxic algae burn the lungs, leave a stomach-churning stench and share much more in common: Both occur naturally, but their effects worsen the more we encroach upon the wild. Both proliferate in high
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