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Tinderbox poetry submissions9/12/2023 He noted that the connection of the wildfires to climate change should be clear even to the most skeptical at this point. Especially unprecedented is the lingering smoke haze over major cities and the sheer number of fires raging simultaneously. Canadian firefighters have been overwhelmed, and firefighters from the United States and South Africa have been arriving to lend a hand.Ĭanadians experience wildfires each year, but no one can recall conditions like this. Hétu said Canadians experience such wildfires each year owing to lightning strikes and “careless people,” but no one can recall conditions like this. People are being moved out in emergency, and all that is happening really quickly.” “We’re not talking about major, large communities, but it is people living there for a long, long time, whether they’re aboriginal or they are local white folks. “The forest fires have been everywhere in Canada, in particular in northern Quebec, where it’s becoming really, really bad, and the prime minister is already telling communities to leave because their communities won’t be saved,” Mr. Meteorologists are predicting that this smoke haze could persist in varying degrees of intensity for months as firefighters in Canada struggle to get wildfires under control. In Quebec, fire conditions are likely to get worse before they get better-rain is not expected through next week and temperatures are trending higher. ![]() The unprecedented fires have brought the threat of climate change driven by global warming to the doorstep of the United States in the form of an orange choking haze that is still spreading along the East Coast and into the U.S. ![]() Hétu said, “but this year, they’re worse than ever, and the reason is very simple-the last month has been one of the driest months in history.” “It’s not new in Canada to have forest fires,” Mr. More than 100,000 Canadians in nine provinces have been forced to flee their homes ahead of the wildfires. What he could say for sure was that the most vulnerable in Canada’s First Nation communities have been among the hardest hit in this now months-long fire catastrophe.Īfter one of the driest and hottest Mays in history, across Canada from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, hundreds of fires continue to burn. After one of the driest and hottest Mays in history, across the vast country from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, hundreds of fires continue to burn.Ĭarl Hétu, the president of the Canadian Catholic Church’s Development and Peace, an international relief and development agency, said it was difficult to say under chaotic circumstances how the church was responding to the wildfires-so many local church officials were themselves on the move, forced to flee homes or church offices as more than 400 fires advanced across Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia and other provinces, sometimes swallowing entire communities. While headlines this week in the United States focused on historic levels of air pollution in major East Coast cities like New York and Philadelphia-which have not experienced air quality conditions this poor since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970-in Canada, it was the unprecedented wildfires themselves that remained the primary worry.
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