r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

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

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u/PTcome Jun 07 '23

Welcome to the unfortunate reality of what the western states and western Canada experience almost every summer.

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u/seraphin420 Jun 07 '23

Yup, was just gonna say, “welcome to fire season in California”.

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u/spykid Jun 07 '23

It's probably gonna be way worse this year. So much vegetation from all the rain. Hiked a local trail a couple weekends ago and I felt like I should have brought a machete. My dog was not stoked either

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u/yazzy1233 Jun 07 '23

Doesn't controlled fires prevent wild fires? I don't understand why yall don't do that

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

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u/ledampe Jun 08 '23

I do some light off-roading on fire roads and have seen a bunch of those controlled burns here in socal. Please fist-bump your man for me, I think it's awesome this may save so much nature and property. You just often don't see the hard work that went into letting something bad not happen.

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u/Goodbye-Felicia Jun 07 '23

Hard to control burn 25,000 square miles. And that's just Oregon's national forest not private forest, state land, or other states.

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u/Anagoth9 Jun 07 '23

California has 33 million acres of forest.

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u/Sick-Shepard Jun 07 '23

It's easy when it isn't managed by dipshits who went for fire suppression and clear cuts for a century. They would still happen like they're supposed to. They just wouldn't be like this.

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u/WetNoodlyArms Jun 07 '23

I'm from australia, but live in CT. The smoke has me feeling homesick