Why was I offline and away from my blog? I went to the #DirtRave. Yes, I was one of the 70,000+ people stuck in the mud at this year's #BurningMan, and when I emailed my editor at the #NYTimes to say I might be late on the op-ed I was working on, she asked me to write about what this year's mud crisis meant:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/burning-man-flood-playa-climate-change.html

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