What's normal and natural, and what's not?

Here is an article explaining some of the causes behind Canada's unprecedented and devastating fire season...
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"No, wildfires are not the ‘normal’ result of climate change"

As wildfires rage and global temperatures continue to breach key thresholds, the language of the “new normal” resounds across the political and media landscape.

The term is a curious one. There is, of course, nothing “normal” about the climate situation. Nor is it a shift to a new stable state of affairs, as the phrase might imply – climate change is a rapidly accelerating dynamic.

Yet calling the climate situation normal is itself normalizing. The clear message is that we need to get used to such events and adapt as best we can – and that, although we are ultimately responsible for them, they are now in large part beyond our control.

The message is disempowering. And it is rooted in the larger idea that environmental issues are everyone’s equal fault, and that everyone equally suffers the consequences.

That idea ignores the reality that the effects of climate change are by the actions of corporations – they are not simply the result of climate change alone.

Carbon emissions are certainly a factor in Canada’s raging wildfires. But specific actions from specific logging companies directly contributed to their spread across the country.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://rabble.ca/environment/wildfires-are-not-the-normal-result-of-climate-change/

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