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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Canada is big enough that, as bad as it is right now, most of us are still just doing our regular <cough, cough> lives. Until autumn comes around and the fires abate.

Or, specifically, “we’re steadfastly continuing to feed the global machine that greases the wheels of climate change….”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IDK where you live, but many cities in Ontario had for the first time ever air quality issues so severe that people were advised to remain indoors as much as possible. Nobody has really been able to ignore it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In Sask those are just part of summer life. I swear the only reason the media has picked this story up is because it's affecting Ontario.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

...because it's affecting the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Well yeah, duh. Wildfires affecting a part of the world that has never been affected by wildfires is particularly noteworthy. Especially considering it's where almost all of Canada's population lives.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Because 99% of the population live in the southernmost 1% of the country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“we’re steadfastly continuing to feed the global machine that greases the wheels of climate change….”

the whole world is :(

and we're killing of plants and animals while doing it :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

i dont want to do it but i dont want to homeless either. this timeline sucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Climate crisis, climate change makes it sound like if it'd be something good, neutral, or that it is happening because of external reasons rather than because of capital.