Weird context to see Geoff Thew.

I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant Friday when I overheard the same sentiment but then took a hard right turn…

“It never used to be like this” ‘i know’ “All the liberals stopped the logging in Canada and now look at them burn and here we are dealing with it.”

Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They’re screwing up the weather!!!

(I seriously had a chud tell me this.)

The name is “Doo-Moss”

it’s those guddam lazy Canajians refusing to rake those leaves!

Tariffs will fix this!

I grew up in Northern MI. 1989-2011. I do not recall any summer of wildfires smoke coming across the lake.

We’re in the ‘FIND OUT’ phase of what happens when you clear cut an entire continent and replant our forests on a massive scale while thinking that ‘oh all that sequestered carbon will just be recaptured in the new trees we plant’. No - whats happening instead is - the trees we mass replanted don’t capture that carbon back at a rate we expect - I am pretty sure the forestry industry knows this - but hey profits right?

Also I reckon if we have retained our old growth forests, it wouldn’t be this bad. It would still be bad, but at least our forests would be more resilient. As for those that have no idea what a old growth forest is - think massive trees that are wider than 2 cars at the base and that are over a thousand years old each at minimum. Go visit one when you have a chance - they are increasingly rare because governments are still fucking allowing logging companies to cut them down. Also, you’ll find they’re a lot more humid than young forests (~200 year old ones). It’s a travesty. In BC, for example, 97% of the province have been clear-cutted and our forestry industry likes to tout themselves as ‘sustainable’. It’s bullshit. What’s even crazier is that we got barely any industry other than shipping out raw lumber for processing elsewhere while we lose jobs and taxes on value added industries.

Wildfires hitting a specific area is also just rare. I grew up in a wildfire-prone area and we only got significant smoke once. So not remembering any doesn’t really say anything meaningful necessarily.

People spent decades preventing wildfires. Fires are a natural part of ecological systems. Overgrowth and a build up of litter cause more intense fires and increase their ability to spread. In northern regions, people were also preventing beavers from doing their thing that helps reduce wildfire spread. At least in Florida we pioneered controlled burns to simulate nature and save lives.