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The Impossible Fight to Stop Canada’s Wildfires (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over 153,000 square kilometres of Canadian land were burned in 2023 (as of August), bigger than South Korea's total land area of 100,339 square kilometres. (CIFFC)

From 2001 to 2021, the total burned area in China due to forest fires was 4,850 square kilometres. (China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration)

In 2023 (as of August), the number of burned areas in Canada is nearly double the 1995 record. (CIFFC)

As of August 2023, 𝟝,𝟠𝟠𝟙 fires have been reported across Canada. (CIFFC)

Forest fires in Canada this year have released 290 million tonnes of carbon, doubling a previous annual record. The estimated Canadian fires emissions account for over 25% of the global total for 2023 to date, and are well above the previous 138 million tonnes Canadian record of registered in 2014. (Reuters)

https://ciffc.ca/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-wildfire-emissions-double-previous-record-flames-rage-2023-08-03/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@yogthos
This year's coast-to-coast wildfires in Canada have already emitted an estimated one-and-a-half billion tonnes of CO2. That's triple the annual climate pollution from burning fossil fuels in Canada. It's more than the combined emissions from 100 nations. And there are still months of fire season looming ahead.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/21/analysis/our-forests-have-reached-tipping-point

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is pretty grim all around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is once again the fault of big corporations. So desperate to prevent their product from burning that they allow decades of organic matter to build up on the forest floors. So now, when we do have a fire it has all that fuel just sitting there.

Many forests in Canada actually need to burn as part of their life cycle. By preventing that natural process, we are just fucking ourselves over. But who cares because of $$$ right...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES @yogthos
I'm pretty sure that the natural process of accumulation of organic material in forests is not controlled by corporations. In fact, that seems like a pretty wacky notion. Which corporations do you mean? And why would they be responsible?