Wildfire on CO Army Base Shows Military’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
On Sunday, a wildfire in Colorado jumped a highway and spread on to Fort Carson and for a time burned out of control on lands used for military training. The Wild Horse Fire is small but was only 10% contained yesterday morning.
Why This Matters: As President Trump bleeds money from the military to build the border wall (which fortunately a federal court just put on hold), climate change — a real emergency for the military — goes unaddressed.
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