To the people of Spain and France: My heart goes out to you. As a British Columbian, we, too, are struggling with the same fire battles and devastation. Added to our fire challenges, is a “neighbour” that is threatening us at every turn, including: "threatening new tariffs over wildfire smoke drifting south of the border."

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Oregon is on fire and I'm sorry for that, it's not fair, both countries are creating smoke for one another.

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 24d

It's almost like the boundaries are all imaginary.

garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d (3 replies)

Omg lol when you took the swing to bad neighbours I was like "yeah Alberta is bad" then I read the next sentence and I was like oh yeah fuck.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 24d (2 replies)

Alberta = USA

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 23d

No, no we're not. Maybe our government is, but that also goes for Saskatchewan, and even Ontario in it's own way.

TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 23d

Only in that if the current Alberta government keeps doing what they are doing, they are going to trigger a renaissance in domestic terrorism.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Until we all die miserably. Wonderful

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 23d

Live miserably, more likely. If this was /c/bangladesh maybe it'd be different.

snoons@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Well, I guess that means we should build a new pipeline or three.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 23d

and more Brookfield data centres!

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 24d

These useless "what if" articles. Let's bring back facts and journalism. In other news...we feel that climate change is closely related to vibe coding. Sheesh!

CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d (5 replies)

It won't be "forever". Once the piled up fuel (that's been accumulating for the past hundred years or so since we've taken the stance that all forest fires are bad) are burnt through, we'll stop seeing these big fires over and over.

healthetank@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 24d

From what I've seen, that doesn't apply to Canada's boreal forests

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Well, that and when the forests don't grow back fast enough to provide new fuel. I.e. when what was forest becomes desert.

Past mistakes with forest management are only part of the problem.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 23d

Grassland comes before desert. There are bits that are coming back as grassland in northern Alberta already.

non_burglar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d (1 reply)

There have been other fires in other years.

CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d

I'm not sure what your point is.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 23d

Or until the forest is gone, anyway. Most future biome maps I've seen have two smaller patches of boreal forest.

betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 23d

Global warming isn't like climbing to floor 2. It's like climbing the stairwell forever.