Ingmar von HomeyerAug 15, 2023
Bread and Circuses

I wish I didn't have to tell you about this again, but I do. It's not being reported much in the news — and you know why?

Because it's not 'new' (the origin of the word 'news'), it's old. This has been going on for months now, and corporate news outlets are simply tired of reporting it. But it is still happening.

Canada's boreal forests are burning up.

At least 1100 fires are active, more than 700 out of control. Over 13 million hectares have been burned so far, with no end in sight. It's an unprecedented climate and environmental disaster.

#Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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Show threadgeobeckAug 14, 2023

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An update from Alberta: Currently 87 fires burning, one out of control. There is so much red on the national map, I hope Alberta is releasing some firefighters to assist elsewhere.

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Show threadProf Prachi SrivastavaAug 14, 2023

@breadandcircuses @cynblogger

The North is burning.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Canada

Show threadProf Prachi SrivastavaAug 15, 2023
@LALegault To your point about the North burning without much coverage, this is a pic from Northern Quebec a couple of days ago. @breadandcircuses @cynblogger
Show threadZoom EarthAug 14, 2023
@breadandcircuses Yes, it’s enormous. Satellite view of the smoke:
Show threadenmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉Aug 14, 2023

@breadandcircuses for context compare that to 2020 when ALL of California had 4 million acres burned with the largest single fire being just over 1M acres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires

List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

Show threadDr. Heather EtcheversAug 14, 2023
@breadandcircuses Gobsmackingly terrifying.
Show threadDarnell Clayton Aug 14, 2023
@breadandcircuses Sheesh! I thought they would have put out these fires 🔥 in #Canada 🇨🇦 by now. Yeah, I am surprised this is not receiving more media attention.
Show threadDallas GrootAug 14, 2023
@darnell @breadandcircuses I blame trump.
Show thread[email protected] has movedAug 14, 2023

@breadandcircuses

#CanadaWildfires in Boreal Forest is becoming scorched earth. Long-term impact:

📍​ reducing ability to capture & store world's carbon (currently at about 12%)
📍 destroying wetland, lakes, and North America's largest rivers​
📍​ obliterating nesting grounds for nearly half of the common bird species found in North America

https://www.audubon.org/conservation/boreal-forests

Canada's Boreal Forests

The Boreal Forest—North America’s bird nursery—is one of the largest intact forests left on Earth. Stretching from Alaska to Labrador, it provides nesting grounds and migratory stopovers for...

Audubon
Show threadRooney’s old accountAug 14, 2023
@breadandcircuses For the climate scientists who told us this would happen for the last 10-30 y, this summer has been very painful.
Show threadAlan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏Aug 14, 2023
@breadandcircuses Seeing as how Canada is the second largest country on the planet, I'm wondering if we should be expressing it as a percentage of the Earth's land mass, as in "so far this year 8% of the planet has burned" (not the real number).
Show threadchris h - authorAug 15, 2023
@breadandcircuses Alberta has got this! The political mindset is on it. To offset: we now pay 25 cents for paper bags! Relief is in sight. Even more welfare for business. Win-Win.
Show threadSannedi2Aug 15, 2023
@breadandcircuses 😭
Show threadJeff ♨️ DarcyAug 15, 2023
@breadandcircuses In case anyone's wondering, 13M hectares is an area slightly bigger than Mississippi, almost as big as Louisiana. That's a lot of land lost to fire.
Show threadAriadneAug 27, 2023
@Obdurodon @breadandcircuses it's 15.1 million hectares as of today (27 August 2023)
Show threadJeff ♨️ DarcyAug 27, 2023
@ariadne @breadandcircuses So, for the USAns, bigger than Illinois and closing in on Georgia.
Show threadAriadneAug 27, 2023
@Obdurodon an area 1.5 times the size of #Iceland @breadandcircuses
Show threadCarolleisaAug 15, 2023
@breadandcircuses This thread ❗️💔
Show threadDLinkAug 15, 2023
@breadandcircuses I personally see this reported non-stop on the news, but thanks for sharing regardless.
Show threadRenéeAug 18, 2023
@breadandcircuses I'm beyond incensed that our Federal government is so utterly cowardly on the climate change file because they're so afraid of backlash from the Conflagration Party of Canada. Incremental administrative solutions and paper shuffling won't fix this. We bought a goddamned pipeline but can't transform our economy and lead the world in green transformation? Welp. Time is up.
Show threadT.S. AguilarAug 18, 2023
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And the Canadian lumber companies say: All these fires could have been avoided if this damn Liberal government had given us permission to clearcut all the boreal forests. Well, there's hope for us, if Poilievre is elected PM in 2025. Then we'll clearcut all of Canada. 😪 😒 😬
Show threadAriadneAug 27, 2023
@breadandcircuses ah, much better today (sarcasm)