For years, climate scientists have warned us that a warming world is an extreme world. The end of the summer of 2017, NaomiAKlein writes, was Exhibit A
The news from the natural world these days is mostly about water, and understandably so. We heard about the record-setting amounts of water that Hurricane Harvey dumped on Houston and other Gulf cities and towns, mixing with petrochemicals to pollute and poison on an unfathomable scale. We heard too about the epic floods that displaced hundreds of thousands of people from Bangladesh to Nigeria .
I had checked the forecast before coming to British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, a ragged strip of coastline marked by dark evergreen forests that butt up against rocky cliffs and beaches strewn with driftwood, the charming flotsam from decades of sloppy logging operations. Reachable only by ferry or floatplane, this is the part of the world where my parents live, where my son was born, and where my grandparents are buried.
The smoke had created its own weather system, one powerful enough to transform the climate not just where we were, but in a stretch of territory that appears to cover roughly a hundred thousand square miles. And the smoke, a giant smudge on the satellite images, respected no borders: Not only was about a third of British Columbia choked, but so were large parts of the Pacific Northwest, including Seattle, Bellingham, and Portland, Oregon.
I called a friend in Kamloops. “Everyone who can is taking their kids far away, especially little ones.” Which put things into perspective for us on the coast. It may have been smoky, but we were damn lucky.Since the New Year, and the new U.S. administration, I hadn’t taken a day off, let alone a weekend. Like so many others, I’d attended way too many meetings and marched until my feet blistered. I’d written a book in a blur, then toured with it.
Without regular natural burns, forests are chock-full of fuel, provoking fires to burn out of control. And there’s a hell of a lot more fuel as a result of bark beetle infestations, which have left behind huge stands of dry and brittle dead trees. There is compelling evidence that the bark beetle epidemic has been exacerbated by climate change–related heat and drought.
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