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This blame game over Canadian wildfire smoke has got to stop (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by T0rrent01@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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This new normal of near-constant wildfire smoke annoys me as much as the next person. But it serves as a reminder that we share one fragile atmosphere that we're collectively screwing up. Fruitless to waste all this energy pointing fingers like children when we should be joining hands to fix this. It's like nature's warning signal.

Whether it be wildfire smoke, a global pandemic, or heat waves, nature know no geopolitical borders. So maybe instead of squabbling over whose smoke is whose, we could acknowledge that we're all in this smoldering mess together. We only have one planet to live on, and we only have one atmosphere to breathe from.

(just food for thought)

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's actually a normal natural process that needs to happen. It's the only way Lodgepole Pines regenerate for instance (their pods need heat to crack open to release seeds). This is actually a healthy thing, for the environment anyways. Fires aren't bad, it's the methods we use to intervene and plan, and our development planning that's the real issue.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The size of these fires aren't good though.

When people talk about fires being good for an ecosystem they are talking about smaller fires where afterwards biodiversity is able to recover. With individual fires as large as we're having it takes a very long time for biodiversity to recover.

[–] juusukun@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup! I recently read about aboriginal tribes doing controlled burns during the winter, rainy seasons etc. They even noticed certain plants would grow more afterwards, attract certain animals etc

[–] T0rrent01@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Hey I don't mean to nitpick but the preferred term nowadays is "First Nations", thank you

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think you're right in a micro sense. People are probably downvoting you because this logic is generally an opening volley by climate change deniers to argue that everything that's happening now is natural.

A fire isn't bad, giant fires that burn huge swathes of land because higher than normal temps have dried the land to tinder are kinda bad. And we need to recognize that the higher than normal temps are the result of fossil fuel burning at an insane rate (sorry for the reddit link, need someone to rehost this great graphic over here!)

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

In combination with poor forestry fire management. Which is essentially what I was getting at.