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Canada is experiencing its 'worst wildfire season of the 21st century': Blair (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago

Turns out climate change exists 🤷‍♀️

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    We need more funding and action to prevent this for sure. Climate change isn't going anywhere anytime soon so this will become more and more the norm.

    I'm going camping this weekend and it's gonna suck not being able to have a fire.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    it’s gonna suck not being able to have a fire.

    If we act now, you'll be able to have that fire in 20 years. But we're not doing it for our campfires. We're doing it because we know old people go hungry first and I want there to be enough food by the time I'm old so I still get some.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Its worst wildfire season of the 21st century so far.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    It's been 22 years since Canada's boreal forest has been a carbon sink (due to various gov'ts forest management failures and the impacts of climate change) and we are well past the point of being able to fix this. :/

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    There's not just a single fire. There were over 130 in Quebec alone as of two days ago, most of which were started by lightning strikes.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, that's definitely a part of it. We've neglected to do controlled spreads of fire to limit these wildfires from being as devastating to the local ecosystems as they are. We're also just getting off a particularly dry spring for the provinces, so that kindling's ready to burn. This of course is accelerated and worsened by climate change. CBC has a whole article about the changing of our wildfires as its impacted by climate change. It's a good read and I'd encourage you to check it out.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    My dad said the quebec fire was started by someone tweeting to collect insurance on burning a a car or piece of farm equipment and the blaze got out of control, you heard anything like that?

    Only from climate change denying conspiracy nutbags.

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