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True, but such facts don’t fit the narrative. Fortunately, NPR is more interested in the facts than clickbait headlines: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/118861

by dade_ 3y ago

True, but such facts don’t fit the narrative. Fortunately, NPR is more interested in the facts than clickbait headlines: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1188618934/canada-wildfires-answers https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1188618934/canada-wildfires-a... ‘Canada is the second-largest country in the world, and almost half of that is forest," Barber said. "A lot of that forest is remote, untouched wilderness, and it's very difficult to manage wildfire in those areas where there is no road access or any of the infrastructure needed to support firefighting activity."’

cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I wouldn't call the linked article click-bait so much as "axe to grind." And I mean, it's not an axe I'd normally have a problem with, maybe. The forestry industry is questionable in many respects. Alberta has a problem with the oil industry dominating everything. BC has a problem with the forestry industry. But this is a "I have a hammer and now everything looks like a nail" article.
- dade_ 3y ago
  Clickbait because it targets people that are upset about the air quality this summer and the apocalyptic skies which were caused by fires in northern Quebec and Ontario. They had nothing to do with forest management practises in BC, it the article inaccurately conflates different issues into a forestry management problem in Canada. They do have an axe to grind, but it has nothing to do with carbon. The National Observer is very sympathetic to aboriginal communities, and BC forestry industry’s relationship with them could be described as antagonistic and definitely problematic. To me, this is one of those make shit up on the left to combat shit that’s made up on the right, but in the end, it is all just a bunch of lies supported by small grains of truth.
  - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
    Whatever man, I'm on the left. Probably far to the left of the National Observer, and I don't recognize this as "left". We obviously agree on the substance of the issue here, but I'll part ways with you on painting this as a left vs right issue. More than anything the article reads like one big run-on-sentence

by dade_ 3y ago

cmrdporcupine 3y ago

I wouldn't call the linked article click-bait so much as "axe to grind." And I mean, it's not an axe I'd normally have a problem with, maybe. The forestry industry is questionable in many respects. Alberta has a problem with the oil industry dominating everything. BC has a problem with the forestry industry. But this is a "I have a hammer and now everything looks like a nail" article.

dade_ 3y ago
Clickbait because it targets people that are upset about the air quality this summer and the apocalyptic skies which were caused by fires in northern Quebec and Ontario. They had nothing to do with forest management practises in BC, it the article inaccurately conflates different issues into a forestry management problem in Canada. They do have an axe to grind, but it has nothing to do with carbon. The National Observer is very sympathetic to aboriginal communities, and BC forestry industry’s relationship with them could be described as antagonistic and definitely problematic. To me, this is one of those make shit up on the left to combat shit that’s made up on the right, but in the end, it is all just a bunch of lies supported by small grains of truth.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Whatever man, I'm on the left. Probably far to the left of the National Observer, and I don't recognize this as "left". We obviously agree on the substance of the issue here, but I'll part ways with you on painting this as a left vs right issue. More than anything the article reads like one big run-on-sentence