🎥 How One House Survived a Wildfire. The LA fires shocked the entire world... What Lessons?

Entering a decade of climate change & robotics adaptation. This is the first newsletter of 2025, welcome back to The Adaptive Economy.

👋 Hi, I’m Djoann Fal. I’m fascinated by our planet, our changing weather, robots, and peaceful, green technological utopias. Welcome to my monthly newsletter.

Note: We are deeply saddened by the devastation in Los Angeles and the loss of homes, communities, and natural ecosystems. The lessons I learn from this incident are truly personal and could certainly never reflect the pain my fellow LA citizens have endured last week.

❌ LA Wildfires have released more CO2 than all the emissions avoided by electric vehicles since 2010.

These fires have burned areas equivalent to the size of Manhattan, releasing as much CO₂ in a single season as an entire decade of emissions from millions of cars. To put this into perspective, Tesla, the leader in electric vehicle adoption, has sold over 430,000 vehicles in the past three years, accounting for nearly 74% of all EVs sold in the U.S. Together, these EVs have avoided millions of tons of CO₂ emissions. Yet, the emissions released by a single wildfire s…