Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted
Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted
On a June day in 2023, New Yorkers woke up to an eerie scene: the sky had turned a murky orange, the sun a dim red orb in the haze. The culprit? Smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away, in Canada. This surreal tableau, once a rarity, has become increasingly common as North America grapples […]
Ok, fine. I’ll stop lighting Canada on fire. We all have to do our part.
You joke, but some of these fires have been started deliberately.
Okay but that headline looks like it was written by big oil
Seriously. We're on fire because of you, big oil.
Wildfires happen, it's hardly a man made action but rather a part of the baseline that we measure our own actions against. The additional amounts added by our actions are the piece we have control of and accountability for.