@boiler
The forested/wilderness area of Ontario is 70.5 million hectares. Texas is about 69.5 million.
So picture Texas, but trees. Now picture Texas temperatures (with no rain as well) and all those trees. Almost all tinder dry softwood.
Anybody that has ever burnt a Christmas tree knows how that goes. These fires, while big from current standards, will be the norm. The average for a while.
There are 10s of millions of people under an extreme high hazard air quality alert right now.
What happens when the fires get even larger?
is it humanities destiny to live in-doors; in manufactured environments? We won’t need rockets to take us to Mars, we will be Mars.
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