"Frustrated with the lack of climate action, a high-school student launched Karbon Economics to explore systems that can shape solutions to the climate crisis." 

"DUBLIN, Calif.—Mira Shah was in sixth grade five years ago when a brush fire ignited on the hill in front of her house. Shah had heard that global warming was making natural hazards like wildfires more common and destructive. But climate change seemed like an abstract threat until a fire burned so close to home.

Then, in January, a series of catastrophic fires ravaged several Los Angeles communities, not far from one of Shah’s cousins and an aunt. Climate change made the hot, dry, windy conditions that fueled those fires 35 percent more likely, according to the international research organization World Weather Attribution. 

For Shah, who had a burgeoning interest in economics, the L.A. fires crystallized her concern that climate change posed an urgent threat to lives and livelihoods. She started a small fundraiser to support firefighters and displaced families, and to raise awareness about the growing costs of a warming world. 

But she wanted to do more."

Liza Gross reports for Inside Climate News September 15, 2025. [2]

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