U.S. Congress members press Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summer
www.theglobeandmail.com
A lack of forest management and arson control is causing blazes that release hazardous fumes drifting into the Midwest, their letter reads
  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    66·
    5 个月前

    Sure would help if they’d committed to Paris or any environmental standards.

    And they should deal with their own forest fires. Remember when we sent firefighters there just this year when Trump was going on about 51st state crap? I remember.

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 个月前

    Maybe the US could behave like climate change exists and actually do something about it?

    Or nah.

    Enjoy the wildfire smoke dumbasses.

  • mintiefresh@piefed.caEnglish
    69·
    5 个月前

    American fires

    Canadians: hey we’re gonna help you out!

    Canadian fires

    Americans: You’re ruining our summer!

  • KMAMURI@lemmy.world
    34·
    5 个月前

    Canadian firefighters were just in the US a few months ago while Drumphkins was flapping his lips about annexation.

    Fuck the regime!

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    17·
    5 个月前

    Hey Republicans, to fix this issue, build a bunch of wind turbine power generators to blow the smoke away.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    311·
    5 个月前

    Hey congress. Remember how Canada and Mexico routinely send us help when our fires get really bad? Well?.. Do you not think we should return the very huge favor?

    • Rose56@lemmy.ca
      10·
      5 个月前

      Exactly what I was thinking! Instead of helping us, they are complaining about something that is not in control.

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 个月前

        Obviously it only makes sense to help Canada if it becomes a state. Half the reason they help with american fires is because they want to be a state so bad. /s

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    5 个月前

    Fuck it, start a controlled burn at the border when the wind is out of the North.

  • DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca
    17·
    5 个月前

    We’ve purposly lit all these fires just to ruin their summer, totally intentional, I swear it.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 个月前

      Canada is lucky to get a chance to have America’s pollution because it’s the greatest pollution this world and maybe universe has ever seen.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    192·
    5 个月前

    We have a plan to deal with this.

    Step #1 is to let one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gasses destroy itself in a civil war.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    14·
    5 个月前

    2 solutions:

    1. US resolution to accept global warming as real, with commitment to lower emissions on top of forest management resources in both countries (US wildfires occasionally annoy Canadians)

    2. US buys more Canadian Pine lumber.

    We have reached a global warming tipping point where forest fires are at such extreme levels for 3 years in a row now, that fires offset global natural carbon capture from trees, which is about 1/4 of human emissions. Some of the arson, has been motivated by climate disinformation as “attempts to prove global warming is false by arson”. Global warming’s impact on forest fires is not more ignition. It is faster/wider spread of fires.

    If everyone in Canada were employed as an “arson preventer”, they could patrol 10 hectares of forest each.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      The forest fire thing is a combination of stuff not just global warming. Our forests have evolved to burn down And we have been preventing it for decades. Now we have forests with tons of deadfall and drier conditions die to global warming. They are going to be bigger and hotter fires.