Writer: Samantha Cristol (she/her)
Samantha Cristol is a second year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent three years working in the construction management industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about environmental justice and building a world where the natural and built environments coexist in healthy and meaningful ways.
This year, more intense and frequent natural disasters have fully exposed the reality of a present and dangerous global climate crisis.
I was thirsty, but I didn’t want to ask for water. This October, the two “lakes” (or rather, water supply reservoirs) I drove by on my way to the farm in Ojai, California – Lake Casita and Lake Cachuma – were both significantly depleted.
