This new normal of near-constant wildfire smoke annoys me as much as the next person. But it serves as a reminder that we share one fragile atmosphere that we’re collectively screwing up. Fruitless to waste all this energy pointing fingers like children when we should be joining hands to fix this. It’s like nature’s warning signal.

Whether it be wildfire smoke, a global pandemic, or heat waves, nature know no geopolitical borders. So maybe instead of squabbling over whose smoke is whose, we could acknowledge that we’re all in this smoldering mess together. We only have one planet to live on, and we only have one atmosphere to breathe from.

(just food for thought)

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    No, not like this.

    These fires we have now, and have had for the last few years, do have a historical event we can look back on, albeit with dread.

    The Permian Extinction. One of the characteristics of it was apparently forest fires on this scale.

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      1 year ago

      The Permian extinction was caused by the basaltic flood eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, with a volume of four million cubic kilometers of lava. That’s not happening here.