Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire – BBC News

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1. Fire season now comes earlier and stays later.

2. Godspeed to the brave firefighters of the world. They are doing incredible work in helping to keep us safe along with our forests. Hopefully these fires will be able to be contained as much as they can be and we can develop more impactful and effective Anti-Wildfire strategies and measures in the very near future. There needs to be a way to prevent drought through new technologies and help create a more sustainable planet for everyone.

3. I really doubt many visitors of this sub need to wake up. We’re not the ones in denial here.

4. All of the major active fires in my province, including the Parker Lake (Fort Nelson) fire, have a total sum of area 100,000 hectares or the size of 138,000 football fields.

5. The smoke overwhelmed Minnesota today!

   “The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an Air Quality Alert for fine particles pollution. The Air Quality Index(AQI) is expected to reach the Red or Unhealthy category.”

6. Climate change is a large factor here, but don’t neglect the fact that BC’s forests have been turned to monoculture tree farms on an unfathomable scale. Across the province, these often single species, single crown height, densely packed, deciduous free tree farms are much more flammable than the primary forests they replaced. Reform BC logging now, and we’d see a lot less wildfire. But the loggers to work remediating this abused landscape.