This is a screen shot I just took from earth null school website. All that yellow? That's smoke from wildfires. And we are under the leading edge of it in that little circle.
This morning I saw a comment on social media from someone in Manitoba. They were shocked - shocked! - that the smoke pall they were under was from...you guessed it...BC. As if they haven't been under *our* smoke every year for the last, I dunno, 10 years?
But right now they have thousands of people evacuated from active monstrous wildfires, and they are shocked because the smoke they are experiencing is from...BC.
I suggested that they should tell their politicians to stop building pipelines...
No mention that *their* smoke was drifting as far south as the southern US states and out to the Maritimes and beyond.
Time for a bunch of people to wake up and smell the smoke.
Wildfire smoke is a visible danger, and yet STILL people don't wear a mask to protect their lungs. I mean, I get that people are ignoring Covid and other virii - they are invisible. But wildfire is right in your face, in your eyes, in your lungs. A person might want to protect themselves? Or nah.
Right now our new prime minister is vowing to build big, build better. And then supports more pipelines. More dirty oil being pumped out of the ground and shipped to China - where they have the infrastructure to process it. Because *we* don't. We never have had. Big Oil refused to build refineries from the get go when they could just pump and ship and count the money flowing in while the dirty oil flowed out.
Pretty sure humans are going to continue to damage the one (previously) habitable planet until we kill ourselves off. OTOH, this planet quite happily lived without humans for millions of years. Maybe it's time to let it be to heal - without us? Or at least stop killing the one and only planet we can actually live on?
Dunno.
In the meantime we are doing our level best to live as lightly as we can on this planet.
No comments:
Post a Comment