California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future

Climate change plays a role, but the power outages are chiefly the result of mismanagement — the kind we can no longer afford

Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Published in
7 min readOct 10, 2019

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Photo: Josh Edelson/Getty Images

TThe millions of people currently affected by power outages in Central and Northern California are struggling with inconvenience and worse, but at least they can…

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Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Writer for

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.