What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine

The struggle over water, between private interests and the public good, the powerful and the weak, is raging now.

From Love Canal to Flint , Michigan ; Bolivia to Ukraine to Tunisia ; budget-cutting, privatization, corporate malfeasance and climate crises conspiring to create political violence, mass migration, property damage and death.

Judith Levine : Donald Trump ’s reactions to the LA fires augur fiercer wars to come.

She says he has threatened to stanch federal aid if the state does not adopt his preferred (and disproven) water management policies.

Levine: Nobody is hiding the political transactions in which climate disaster victims are bought and sold.