This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSAN FRANCISCO — The cityscape resembles the surface of a distant planet, populated by a masked alien culture. The air, choked with blown ash, is difficult to breathe.There is the Golden Gate Bridge, looming in the distance through a drift-smoke haze, and the Salesforce Tower, which against the blood-orange sky appears as a colossal spaceship in a doomsday film.San Francisco, and much of California, has never been like this.California has become a warming, burning, epidemic-challenged and expensive state, with many who...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSAN FRANCISCO — The cityscape resembles the surface of a distant planet, populated by a masked alien culture. The air, choked with blown ash, is difficult to breathe.There is the Golden Gate Bridge, looming in the distance through a drift-smoke haze, and the Salesforce Tower, which against the blood-orange sky appears as a colossal spaceship in a doomsday film.San Francisco, and much of California, has never been like this.California has become a warming, burning, epidemic-challenged and expensive state, with many who...WW…