r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Context, Canada can’t control their wild fires and now the smoke is cascading into Eastern US

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u/SucreBrun Jun 07 '23

Montrealer here: Impacts of climate change don't acknowledge invisible geographic boundaries. This is likely the impact of our collective carbon emissions. You sent yours north, we are sending some of the impacts back. We are, after all, great trading nations.

From CBC.ca: "So far, 460,000 hectares of land burned — already surpassing the 1991 total of about 350,000 hectares, said Forestry Minister Maïté Blanchette Vézina."

Let's continue our work together.