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Toronto air quality among world's worst as wildfire smoke blankets city (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Strange to be reading this about Toronto while living out west, normally it's us.

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Sepia coloured world. My son woke up when I was out and asked "what's going on?". I calmly told him "the apocalypse" then went and made a coffee.

    It's even worse now than it was this a.m.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks to Carney, this is going to get a lot worse.

    Burn baby, burn.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Oh god please not this again, I remember when it was so bad that the air was toxic all the way south to NYC

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    It's a yearly thing and will be untill there's nothing left to burn. And we have a lot of forests, so that will take a while.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Of course it is, why wouldn't it be. Its not like we actually have to live on this planet fuck it, but hey as long as some capitalists get to make money before we all die.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    wait what do you two think is happening

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I thought that the capitalists were allowing the forests to burn because its cheaper than enforcing real environmental protections and harms their profits less

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    "Allowing forests to burn??" There is an argument that climate warming is causing fires to be more frequent or severe, but they are going to happen no matter what we do, and it is not only beyond anyone's power to do anything in Northern Ontario, it's not a problem that needs a solution in the first place. Forest fires are part of the ecosystem. It's like complaining that capitalists are letting rain happen.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I took these yesterday, looked like an apocalypse movie.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Willowdale, rn, at 474. 200 points higher than "official city reading". Detroit has a 908 reading. I think that is 1/1000th smoke to air ratio.

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