The real big fires are caused by lightning strikes but then you have all the random lunatics setting fires, like you said. It sure isn't "climate change". I don't think liberal Canada would ever get rid of their environment/development protections for their forests. They want to leave them untouched because they're eco-nuts.

I was really surprised to hear that many people do not have air conditioning in Europe. Its over a hundred degrees during their heatwaves. A lot of people can't handle heat like that. Its awful that the government controls whether you can have air conditioning in your home or not. That's a miserable way to live. Why the Europeans tolerate it I don't know.

Its the climate change scam that justifies whatever they want to do.

The idea they are pushing is that wildfires are happening more often and are worse because of "climate change". The reality is that there are eco-nuts and random lunatics setting fires intentionally (usually mentioned in the aftermath but downplayed) and old systems of wildfire spotters have been shut down and governments just aren't trying to actually put them out anymore.

I'm sure that there are also other motivations... like wildfire-affected land being easier to strip of environmental/development protections and repurposed/sold/developed, the unburned forest areas adjacent to the burned-out areas suddenly being legally eligible for logging or something.

It's the same in Europe. When a normal non-apocalyptic heatwave hits, their media and authorities tell them it's the hottest heatwave ever and also "No, you cannot have air conditioning!" and also use bureaucratic-expert paperwork schemes invented a few decades ago to automatically collect death data and then inferring and link normal deaths to the heat somehow (similar to what happened with "covid death" tallies during the scamdemic) ... to drive people into a sort of near-hysteria.

It's all about creating the illusion of a grand, global external crisis to make people fearful and malleable and provide a pretext for huge societal changes that non-miserable, non-fearful people would reject.

The rain cleared out a lot of the smoke, but not all of it. I hope Canada tries to put out the fires soon because it would suck to have a summer with smoky air.

Its unacceptable that Canada isn't taking care of it NOW. They're poisoning the air we all breathe. I was outside for a little while yesterday and my eyes still burn today.