This is collapse related because things are in rough shape already for large parts of the province of British Columbia, Canada.
The drought that started last year in the north continues as we head into the hottest driest months.
Ranchers are talking about having to sell their cattle as there isn't enough feed growing on the ranges so they'd have to start feeding them their winter feed.
The are already so many fires that the military has been called out and firefighters have come from many other countries. They've also got more planes and fifty more helicopters than last week to help out. They mention they might not have enough hoses and pumps is things go sideways. Something I've never heard before. The smoke has been horrendous for a lot of folks up there.
The Southern Interior , where it gets hotter, is predicted to have more fires as the summer progresses.
I'm in the Southern Interior and have had four fires, thankfully quickly extinguished, within sight of home so far. Two were human caused and the other were lightning strikes. There's lots of other fires burning in the immediate area that are thankfully mostly not threatening any structures at this time. There were 24,000 lightning strikes in the province in a two day period recently , as an example, and thunderstorms forecast often. It's only a matter of time before the wind picks up and flares up all those fires and all those smouldering spots or we get a bunch of thunderstorms with very little rain.
The last line of the article is scary. They say that if the drought continues through the winter and spring next year will be worse!