Climate change is something that affects our lives and the way we live. Our weather became more dry and hot due to climate change. Which is terrible due to all the wildfires California has been having lately, Dry and windy weather are the main factors that allow wildfires to spread. There has been a total of 6,402 wildfires in California this year and we have lost a total of 250,349 acres so far. There has only been three deaths and eight non fatal injuries due to the fires but many families have lost their homes and are struggling to rebuild their community. Many workers have lost their jobs and land such as farmers who grow crops and those who own family run businesses. Wildfires often come in contact with power lines and this causes blackouts for those living near a town or city. This affects thousands and can take weeks to repair depending on where these power lines are located, Which means no power to store your food, use the lights in your house or to stay updated on the news with information about the fire in your area. Research shows that climate change is to blame for more extreme weather in california and as the state gets hotter and drier over time we will continue to have more and more wildfires. We have to make serious changes now with how we burn controlled fires and how we protect our homes from being destroyed. We could build the powerlines far away from any nearby trees to prevent blackouts, install solar panels to houses that need it, use cameras to detect fires as they start so they don’t spread to other places and store food in places around our houses in case the fires last days or even weeks.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.