There is a vicious cycle at work: While wildfires are destroying biodiversity, biodiversity loss may contribute to increased susceptibility to wildfires.
While the inferno spread shockingly fast, it didn’t come out of nowhere.
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We can still avoid the worst impacts of climate change, save money, and make energy grid more resilient. "Obviously, climate change is not real. I’ve heard, you’ve heard, "expert" after "expert" telling us for years how climate change is a "fraud."
Canada is alive with resistance
Choosing sides in the longest, hottest summer
How can a supposed superpower that spends billions of dollars of borrowed money on its military remain clueless about the clear and present danger to its essential workforce from wildfires burning for weeks just north of our border.
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right and surging wildfires will take a progressive green industrial policy,
As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Climate change is quickly becoming the climate emergency.
The only way to stop this march to a fully tropical globe is to stop burning gasoline and diesel in our vehicles, and to stop generating electricity and heating our homes with coal and fossil gas.
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