Americans face existential challenges. The president has done nothing to help and much to make things worse

My wife and I have been warned we may need to evacuate our cabin in the hills north of San Francisco, because of .
Climate change is largely to blame for these fires, which are growing in number and intensity every year. It’s also to blame for the increasing number and virulence of , flash floods along the eastern seaboard, and .
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of and . His new book, , is out now. He is a columnist for Guardian US