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‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to
(www.theguardian.com)
For two generations, Canadians have been telling themselves that climate change would be totally beneficial for Canada. The basic idea was that the climate would be nice and stable and predictable but it would make the country warmer, make winters less harsh, increase the agricultural potential in the north etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
Canadians are among the worst CO2 polluting people on the planet on a per capita basis.
You can see this recent comment where a hapless Canadian wonders why Canadians aren't totally winning yet. The propaganda goes extremely deep. The commenter is frustrated that Canadians aren't profiting from the climate refugee problem -- talking about selling foreigners a safe haven in Canada. The comment is posted under an article talking about how Canadians are now becoming refugees inside their own country! It's a whole country sleep walking into major peril.
The boreal forest is a bigger source of carbon than the Amazon, and Canadians have been hard at work draining the muskeg swamps in order to improve the logging industry. With the water drained, it takes merely 3 days of off-the-charts heat to turn it into a wildfire risk. When the boreal carbon gets going, it will be a natural carbon emitter that equals humanity's industrial pollution. An unstoppable train that will be uncontrollable by humans. It's not if, but when.