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More than 1000 fires burning in Canada right now
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Canadian here. This is, for many provinces the worst year ever recorded for forest fires. One fire is larger than our smallest province. It’s very bad. Not sure there is a “normal” though as each year can be highly variable, and different measures for what is normal. Gonna get worse too as we move into the coming few years, imo.
That sounds awful.
Canada is big enough that, as bad as it is right now, most of us are still just doing our regular lives. Until autumn comes around and the fires abate.
Or, specifically, “we’re steadfastly continuing to feed the global machine that greases the wheels of climate change….”
IDK where you live, but many cities in Ontario had for the first time ever air quality issues so severe that people were advised to remain indoors as much as possible. Nobody has really been able to ignore it.
In Sask those are just part of summer life. I swear the only reason the media has picked this story up is because it's affecting Ontario.
...because it's affecting the US.
Well yeah, duh. Wildfires affecting a part of the world that has never been affected by wildfires is particularly noteworthy. Especially considering it's where almost all of Canada's population lives.
the whole world is :(
and we're killing of plants and animals while doing it :(
i dont want to do it but i dont want to homeless either. this timeline sucks.
Because 99% of the population live in the southernmost 1% of the country.
Climate crisis, climate change makes it sound like if it'd be something good, neutral, or that it is happening because of external reasons rather than because of capital.