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Originally Posted by pylon
That's crazy. So here you have people setting them as adrenaline junkies. And all this does is help fuel the narrative that global warming is 110% to blame.
This article stands out to me as well.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sto...climate-change
Maybe we as humans need to do less forest burny activities.
The heating of the climate is undeniable. I am just not sold on the fact climate change is the primary cause. Anecdotal I know, but trails I used to hike 20 years ago that you'd be lucky to see one person over an entire day, you'll see 20 now. Crown land areas I used to camp and not be within 500 meters of someone else, look like music festivals some weekends.
Places you used to go, where we found out about them from a friend of an uncles friends buddy's neighbour... all those areas are now on All-Trails and all these other hiking apps, and people that don't respect the forest, don't know proper campsite management, don't realize you don't drive your ATV through knee high super dry grass... they are a huge cause of all this as well. The utter stupidity I have seen out near Waiprous.... they need a $1000/yr crown land usage/camping fee to flush some of these trashy people out. |
Setting aside the insane "environmentalists are conspiring to engage in false flags to start forest fires," the foundation of your point is completely wrong. There aren't more fires than in the past; it's just the opposite. Look at this chart:
You can clearly see that the number of fires per year is declining. At the same time, the area burned is generally getting higher outside of the extreme years. The latter is what warmer, drier weather can exacerbate, regardless of what's causing the fires.