Canadian Wildfire Smoke Blows Into U.S., Setting Stage for Another Miserable Summer
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Blows Into U.S., Setting Stage for Another Miserable Summer
Wildfire smoke causes at least 16,000 deaths per year in the U.S. and is predicted to get worse by 2050.
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Smoke forecasting isnt a thing I had heard of before like 2020 or so.
If you're young, you need to be painfully aware of how incredibly not normal this is, that wildfires have become so common that we make predictions about where the smoke will billow.
Fucking wild.
I hadn’t heard of it until last year when I left my house and thought there was a massive fire nearby… only to learn it was smoke from thousands of miles away
Got to run out of stuff to burn someday, though. Then things will go back to normal.
If by normal you mean "devoid of life," yeah.
The planet will not be devoid of life. Even when humanity is dead and gone there will be SOMETHING out there living
Roaches
The person said "got to run out of stuff to burn someday" which kind of means that everything is destroyed, not just humanity. Without plant life, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but we'd no longer have an atmosphere.
Maybe we'd still have tardigrades or some shit, but I think "devoid of all life" would be pretty accurate in this scenario.
Generally speaking though, you're correct that the planet will survive just fine (rather, it would probably thrive) without humans.
*humanity
Decades of fire suppression have built the conditions for wildfires. Fires were pretty common in the boreal forest, but not letting them burn so the forestry companies didn't lose product has lead to this.
I've lived in California my entire 39 year life. Every summer has been fire season as long as I can remember. It's only weird that people started giving a shit about the smoke in the last 5 or so years.
Wildfires are not only common, they are necessary. The only reason we stop them is because we build things too damn close and we want to protect lives and property.
Be mindful of the air quality for your area. Don’t wait for a yellow-orange sky to tell you what you’re breathing. As of this moment, eastern Kansas has poor air quality for sensitive individuals.
Yepppp. Also we used to have winter in the Midwest. But it would’ve been difficult and expensive to reduce emissions and we decided to invade a country on the other side of the planet and take their oil instead