what a year
Presidente Maduro, my country is burning and people are dying. Please send help!
A friend of mine from New Zealand was losing her mind because the sky was red and her parents straight up would not acknowledge it lol
Wow how could those kiwis let that happen to their country oh well god bless america
When protestors burn down one cop shop or target it’s a tragedy and must be dealt with swiftly and with the full might of the state, but when the changing climate burns down half the US, it’s a Chinese hoax
This happens every year. NY media doesn't give a shit about California or the west coast, even though fully one in ten Americans lives in CA.
A little bit of the Paradise fires last year broke through, but only because Trump visited there and starting talking incoherently about forest management.
Edit because I'm mad: would love to get some reporting on the number of people dying or getting sick due to shit air quality from these fires every year.
What can we do man? Our
slaveprison labor force is all too sick to use putting out fires.Our
slaveprison labor force is all toodeadsick to use putting out fires.
I mean what else can we do. I live here and I can't do shit but watch. And yes it does fucking suck most of my family and friends are still under evacuation.
This. I'm getting very tired of the played out "lol this country is so fucking dumb why aren't people doing anything." Apathy. Its all due to apathy and having zero locus of control after having every one of the keys to power stripped away from us so it can concentrate in the hands of murderous ghouls.
There's literally nothing any of us can do to stop this save a popular uprising, and even then it's pretty clear now that battle is something we need to fight and build over decades, not months. Decades that will continue to ravage the environment while we attempt to regain power.
well, at least the fire smog cloud is blocking the sun and the temperature isnt 120 in la county anymore.
every year we get reports that the US is on fire, I'm a bit too young to have been politically aware much before trump, but is this not normal? Reports of forest fires and extreme weather come out of america with such regularity and normalcy that honestly I'd just assumed it was a natural part of the year in that climate, like insects or annual floods. Everyone else carries that "sucks huh" attitude because it very much seems like the US carries that attitude, and everyone else presumed they knew what they were doing with their own climate.
To contrast, the Australian situation was clearly an issue because their government was making announcements about the disaster and wildlife experts were panicking about it on every news channel - but all sources I've seen have seemed to act as if these wildfires in america are just part of life and always have been. Are they bullshit; are these occurrences in the US actually new?
well fuck, that looks a little bit apocalyptic. But at least that drought and record temperature thing is just a fluke, and couldn't possibly be part of a larger trend or have a concrete cause 🙃🙃🙃
Don't know about other states, but in California, the record set in 1980 for acres burned in one year is now the average. The new maximums are nearly triple the old ones.
Wildfires are normal on the West Coast, but it's gotten much more severe, much more quickly than scientists predicted.
Climate Change is no longer an upcoming problem, it is causing catastrophic problems already. This is going to cripple California for the foreseeable future at current levels of warming, let alone impossible to reach goals like 1.5c or 2c.
Its really just a crap shoot. I've already been told by chuds that God is the only thing that controls the weather.
I mean, being fair: There's not a lot they can do beyond "put in PTO and go fight the fire."
