Comment on Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
My favorite part about all these news pieces is how it’s always mentioned that Canadian wildfires are smoking over the US.
But then the article shares a picture showing hundreds of fires both North and South of the border. Because fire doesn’t give a fuck about your imaginary lines in the dirt…
But somehow the media has to externalize the problem and make it Canadian forests fault that your sky is Smokey and orange.
The map posted here is misleading. Each point is representative of an independent fire, but not the fire’s size. Looking at the interactive map in the linked article, you can see just how large the fires in Canada are.
Personally I don’t care where they are, they’re sad regardless. But the volume of smoke we are seeing is from the sheer volume of acreage blazing in Canada.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So in not disagreeing with you. It is worth noting though that the border between the US and Canada is not just imaginary. It does have an actual physical demarcation. And it actually can slow the spread of fire across the border, if only slightly. The trees at the border have been cleared for a 20 foot wide gap, often referred to as “The slash”.
Image …wikipedia.org/…/Canada–United_States_internation…
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Wow, that is true. As someone who literally lived on the border for my formative years, this is not clear-cut across the country.
In my case, it is a concrete marker in the middle of the forest.