The fire next time: California’s rolling blackouts are no substitute for serious prevention
A version of this article appeared earlier in Salon
California is stumbling its way out of one of the five worst power failures in U.S. history. Well, perhaps we should say power outages, not failures, since the loss of power by millions of PG&E customers across Northern California, many for days at a time, was entirely intentional on the part of the utility — there was no “failure.”
