Los Angeles Sells Out Manzanar, Again
What does it say about our respect for the past that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is willing to ignore empty rooftops and parking lots within L.A. city limits - perfectly capable of hosting solar panels - to instead build a massive solar plant right across from the historic site of the first Japanese American internment camp built in 1942? As a place, the desert holds a lot of meaning for many people, each of whom holds a different perspective of the desert as an individual. A peaceful getaway for city-dwellers, a terrain whose story is told in Native American salt songs of spiritual significance, and a place of bittersweet hardship for explorers and miners who sought their fortunes in an unforgiving landscape. Our perspectives of the desert can be bundles of emotion as varied as the topography and wildlife that calls the desert home. The desert tells our story as individuals, but also as a society - the good and the bad. One of...