The Whole World is Burning (global wildfires)

[Beebo Brink]

Raging wildfires and 'burn scars' threaten the West's drinking water

Wildfires and their lasting effects are becoming a way of life in the West.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Fires leave trail of dead wildlife, scorched land in Bolivia’s protected areas

Forest fires in Bolivia are showing no sign of abating, with blazes sweeping through ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, Chaco scrubland, Chiquitanía savanna, and Pantanal wetland. With almost 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) burned to date this year, experts are warning of a repeat of...

news.mongabay.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It’s not just fires! After Merritt’s sewage treatment plant flooded and forced a city wide evacuation, it looks like Sumas Lake is reforming.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It’s not just fires! After Merritt’s sewage treatment plant flooded and forced a city wide evacuation, it looks like Sumas Lake is reforming.

Nor only floods either!

What are ‘sacrifice zones’ and why do some Americans live in them? | Adrienne Matei

Around 256,000 Americans live in areas where incidences of cancer caused by air pollution exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s current upper limit of ‘acceptable risk’

www.theguardian.com

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(The sacrifices, of course, are to Mammon -- when the words "One Nation Under God" appear on the currency, it's strange so few people stop to consider which deity is most closely associated with banks, and I very much doubt the god in question is lord Ganesh).

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh hey, it's December and parts of Colorado are on fire.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Oh hey, it's December and parts of Colorado are on fire.

 

[Free]

(The sacrifices, of course, are to Mammon -- when the words "One Nation Under God" appear on the currency, it's strange so few people stop to consider which deity is most closely associated with banks, and I very much doubt the god in question is lord Ganesh).

BANK GANESHA

www.bankganesha.co.id

(Seriously, good old Gajanana is well known as a patron of bankers.)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

BANK GANESHA

www.bankganesha.co.id

(Seriously, good old Gajanana is well known as a patron of bankers.)

Many Hindu business owners also maintain a small family shrine to lord Ganesh, along with other family patron deities, and offer prayers and sacrifices at the financial year end, to thank him for his protection during the previous year, and to ask him for his good favour during the year to come.

 

[Khamon]

This statement is unfair to Boebert’s intelligence as everyone knows that one fights wildfires with a rake.

 

[Khamon]

Urban wildfires burned 6,000 acres and hundreds of homes near Denver

Officials call it a miracle that there've been no reports of deaths in the blazes, which destroyed at least 500 homes — and perhaps twice that number. In some cases families had just minutes to flee.

www.npr.org

It seems the Colorado fires are contained. ~Six-thousand acres burned and over five-hundred buildings, many of them homes, were destroyed. But no human lives were lost.

 

[Beebo Brink]

'People exploded': Can Oregon's wildfire plans survive the public? - E&E News by POLITICO (eenews.net)

The last time Oregon tried mapping the state’s wildfire risk, government officials were forced to cancel a public hearing on the topic because the police couldn’t guarantee their safety.

“People exploded,” said state Sen. Jeff Golden, a Democrat from southern Oregon, where the danger of wildfire is among the greatest. “There was almost a massive revolt over this.”

Now, almost a year after the first map was withdrawn, Oregon is trying again to better understand which parts of the state are most vulnerable to wildfires and where new regulations might be necessary to better protect residents.

How well the second attempt goes could serve as a model — or a warning — for other states trying to get a handle on the real-life consequences of living on a warming planet.