Is anyone doing anything about canada?

[Anonymous]

Blame Canada! 🍁 🇨🇦

“ Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada

For... the smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
The laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!”


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should put giant windmills along the border to blow all the smoke back.

What about a wall? I think a wall would work.

[Anonymous]

Honestly it’s really annoying. They need to get their stuff together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should put giant windmills along the border to blow all the smoke back.

What about a wall? I think a wall would work.

An extremely tall wall! Make Canada pay for it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly it’s really annoying. They need to get their stuff together

You’re such a troll. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you OP. I posted about this previously and got similarly mocked for for it.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/dev/posts/list/1141576.page

If the smoke we keep getting was coming from Mexico or if an Asian or African country was our neighbor and the smoke was coming from there, folks here would be in an uproar about them being irresponsible and lacking accountability, but since it's Canada we'll just stare at our hands.

Why must they worry, the air is being pushed down towards us anyway.

Op - to be clear - I’m not mad at Canada. I just genuinely don’t know what we (the us) are doing to sort this out. Clearly we need to do more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many reasons for the fires including a history of poor forest fire management (not unique to Canada, awful here in US too) but it is clear that climate change is making fires worse on top of that.

So as to what I'm doing about the climate change situation, I'm driving and flying less (summer vacation this year by train), eating less meat, entering the DC composting pickup trial, unsubscribing to Amazon prime and cutting down on shopping in general, and not having another child. I'm also directing my donations to groups working on these things and not voting for anyone who denies climate change.

Yes, I'm still imperfect and annoyingly self righteous about this, but what's it going to take to get people to care? Our sky is literally gray.

What are you doing about Canada?

Don't get the vibe this one was on the table

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly it’s really annoying. They need to get their stuff together

You’re such a troll. Lol

Not a troll. Just sick of this.
Can’t they put some industrial fans out there and blow the smoke somewhere else? Why do we always have to deal with it? They need to innovate or something instead of sitting around eating donuts and saying eh to each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you OP. I posted about this previously and got similarly mocked for for it.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/dev/posts/list/1141576.page

If the smoke we keep getting was coming from Mexico or if an Asian or African country was our neighbor and the smoke was coming from there, folks here would be in an uproar about them being irresponsible and lacking accountability, but since it's Canada we'll just stare at our hands.

Why must they worry, the air is being pushed down towards us anyway.

Op - to be clear - I’m not mad at Canada. I just genuinely don’t know what we (the us) are doing to sort this out. Clearly we need to do more

You need to read more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m with you, OP. I told DH today I wanted to move if this keeps happening. He told me that was ridiculous.

Move where?

Yeah, that’s what he said. I said somewhere that didn’t have smoke and we could have clear skies. Which is why he basically said it was a stupid idea and we weren’t moving.

[Anonymous]

Canadian here. I love how Canada is now on the radar for the recent bad air quality due to forest fires when the USA has been polluting Canadian air and water on the Great Lakes corridor for decades, not to mention the Red River.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/wq-swm1-05.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Canadian here - What exactly do you suggest people do about Canada? Start a war? Protest? Write a strongly worded letter to Mother Nature? And will you also cc this letter to California?

I don’t mean to be rude, as it’s not in our nature to because impolite, but what a stupid post. I regret reading it and wasting my time responding.

Prevention. Firefighters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Canadian here. I love how Canada is now on the radar for the recent bad air quality due to forest fires when the USA has been polluting Canadian air and water on the Great Lakes corridor for decades, not to mention the Red River.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/wq-swm1-05.pdf

This is illogical. Just like:

Because there's pollution in American cities, we should not try to stop California forest fires.

Doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous]

and I think the point of OP was: What is the U.S. doing to help?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Canadian here - What exactly do you suggest people do about Canada? Start a war? Protest? Write a strongly worded letter to Mother Nature? And will you also cc this letter to California?

I don’t mean to be rude, as it’s not in our nature to because impolite, but what a stupid post. I regret reading it and wasting my time responding.

Prevention. Firefighters.

Do you even know how big Canada in comparison to the US (ie. most forest fires are in the boreal where most Canadians do not love) not to mention our population?