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Smoke from Anchorage would drift over where? Yukon? Nobody lives in Yukon. Your smoke is affecting millions down here. But I see you are in Vermont so you must be trying to get away from them too?
The climate has always changed, pre ice age, ice age, etc. I have a lot of trouble buying into theories saying a one degree average temperature change in 20 years would suddenly spark forest fires. It is a lot warmer than that in Florida, where they have large pine forests too, and they are not burning.
That is because the air currents flow west to east, and dip down here in the Alberta region. Your situation is totally different. They need to plan and prepare for such situations.
YOU need to get off your high horse and go plan and prepare your own self for such situations. Everybody needs to plan and prepare for such situations instead of finger-pointing at countries that have fires and smoke and sniveling and complaining about something that everyone needs to deal with.
If you believe that Canada can plan and prepare to prevent such situations then the onus is on you to explain exactly how that can be done and where the resources and money will come from to do so instead of you complaining about it. If you can't offer helpful advice then quitchabitchin and go attend to your own country's problems and business instead. Lord knows you folks sure have way more than enough problems and grief of your own making.
If you believe that Canada can plan and prepare to prevent such situations then the onus is on you to explain exactly how that can be done and where the resources and money will come from to do so ....
Right. The OP has made repeated references to "Why don't you guys do something?" and inferred that if only Americans were on the scene, this would all be over in a matter of days.
Well, we are doing something. We're fighting the fires. There are firefighters on the ground, waterbombers working, fire retardants dropping from helicopters. Problem is, that the fires are too big for our current firefighting force. So we've been importing firefighters from across Canada and around the world. A crew from Australia and New Zealand came in last week, for example. American firefighters are undoubtedly on scene as well, as they typically are when Canada needs help, just as Canada helps out the US if it suffers a natural disaster. But more American firefighters would be very welcome, I'm sure; just as more Ontario, Quebec, and BC ones would be.
As for "doing something," Alberta is as proactive as it can be when it comes to preventing fires. This time of year especially, but whenever it becomes necessary, we Albertans are repeatedly warned about fire danger. "Don't throw your cigarette out your car window in these weather conditions," is just one example. Additionally, outdoor fire bans are frequent and common. Often, these are for national and provincial park campgrounds, but they can extend into the wilderness, across a rural county, and even into cities--no backyard fire pits, no charcoal grilling on the deck, for example. But nothing can be done about lightning strikes that can start fires in remote areas.
I'm unsure what more can be done, but if the OP has any reasonable suggestions, I'm sure we would be happy to hear them.
Last edited by ChevySpoons; 05-30-2023 at 12:43 AM..
This must be a troll thread. There is no way someone is actually seriously blaming Canada for a forest fire.
We have these fires every year somewhere in the US. They are as much part of the forest as the trees.
I don't know about you, but where I live we pay substantial taxes and have well organized volunteer corps to deal with emergency situations like this. I do not dislike Canadians, but we already bear a substantial financial burden to protect them. However, enough is enough. Time to organize some crews in New York and Maine and go over there and put the darned things out for them. It is getting hard to breathe here.
I don't know about you, but where I live we pay substantial taxes and have well organized volunteer corps to deal with emergency situations like this. I do not dislike Canadians, but we already bear a substantial financial burden to protect them. However, enough is enough. Time to organize some crews in New York and Maine and go over there and put the darned things out for them. It is getting hard to breathe here.
This might be where the saying comes in about being unable to see the forest for the trees?
But by all means, firefighters from New York and Maine are welcome.
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