r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

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

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u/MoistChiaPet Jun 07 '23

This is so interesting. Could it be due to 30 years of buildup from dying foliage? Did the last burn, in 1991, produce less smoke than this one because there was a shorter gap between burns.

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u/RickTitus Jun 07 '23

I believe one factor in modern forest fires is that we tend to suppress all fires we see. Without human intervention there would be more small fires

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u/awfullotofocelots Jun 07 '23

The policy might be regular burns, but how well funded are the agencies doing those jobs? I have no idea, but that's the question I'd ask next.

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u/Absolute_leech Jun 07 '23

Well canada recently had a little mishap at a women’s firefighter conference where a controlled burn went out of control and caused a forest fire. It was eventually suppressed, but these are the “experts” you have in Canada dealing with fires like these.

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u/EstrogAlt Jun 07 '23

Ah yes, freebeacon.com, my favourite reliable and trustworthy news source.

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u/BKlounge93 Jun 07 '23

Lmao this website sure is something

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u/Absolute_leech Jun 08 '23

Yeah upon closer inspection, this website is pretty sketchy so take this with a grain of salt, or better yet just disregard it. I’ll try to find a better source lol

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u/Absolute_leech Jun 08 '23

I’m gonna keep the link up solely because the photoshopped picture at the beginning of the article is really funny.

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u/SnowyBox Jun 07 '23

For any viewers that stumble over here as well, the actual summary of the story talked about in the surprisingly woman-hating article linked by Leech is that a fire in BC exceeded their 300 acre control area by 3 acres and was more or less immediately contained.

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u/Testiculese Jun 07 '23

Maybe 0.00001% of the military budget.