If you’re like me, and I know not many people are, but this time, maybe, just maybe, many of us have had a similar response, so if you’re like me, you are horrified by the Maui fires and the utter destruction of Lahaina, Hawai’i by wildfires. Lahaina is a city of 12,000 people. It burned completely to the ground. Razed more thoroughly than Genghis Khan and his might hordes could do in his marauding days or Putin could do to Bakhmut. As of this writing, eighty-nine people are confirmed dead (now the deadliest fire in US history) and 1,000 missing.

If you’re looking for a way to help, Hawai’i Magazine has published a list of Hawai’i-based aide organizations with links to their donations page.

The total destruction is just unimaginable. If you haven’t looked at the pictures, I don’t blame you, it’s hard, but they show every building, every car, every tree and plant, burned to a crisp right down to the water’s edge.

Clay Jones‘ Claytoonz offers this editorial cartoon concerning the Maui fires along with an explanation of who Eddie is and why it is so meaningful to Hawai’ians that he would go to help. Hopefully it will inspire you to send donations or to help with a climate disaster near you.

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Image Attribution

Eddie Would Go is an editorial cartoon by Clay Jones found on his Claytoonz website. I’m sure he would appreciate a visit to his site and that the image is not licensed for public use, so if he would like for me to take it down, I will.