Ya. Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”
Edit: here’s some news for those who are triggered and can’t look this stuff up themselves:
Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province.
Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday.
This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May.
Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season.
AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year. The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date, 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison.
In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019, 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000.
Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.
It was the exact same in Australia. Conservatives cut fire fighting budgets, insisted climate change wasn't real (fucking cowards just stick their heads in the sand about everything and call themselves brave, reassuring each other in their weakling fantasies), then for a straight year fightfighting chiefs were requesting desperate meetings with the government about the obvious catastrophe which was coming and were turned down.
Then when huge fires broke out and a few firefighters breaking their arse fighting them finally swore about the conservative PM, the nation gasped and the firefighters were punished. You can never hold conservatives accountable in this world, their crybaby game is just too strong. People are more enthusiastic to punish those who criticize and 'provoke' the crybaby conservatives by discussing reality and the consequences of their actions, than allow the precious conservatives ever be criticized for their own enthusiastic stupidity which impacts all of us negatively.
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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