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- At 10 percent of Canada's land surface, BC's landmass is immense, containing a large stretch of temperate rain forest along its Pacific coast. Some of the wettest places in North America are within the province-earning BC the nickname the "wet coast."
For the past decade, the province, including the rainforest, has been affected by the mild winters and drought-like conditions, which culminate in uncharacteristically long lasting fire seasons. This year has been the driest since 1893, when records started, which has lead to more and longer lasting wildfires. Experts are calling the province as a whole the canary in the coal mine.
During the peak wildfire season, hundreds of new fires were being reported every day, and the province struggled to get both the human and financial resources to keep up.
VICE heads to Oliver in the BC's interior to embed with fire crews and Boulder Creek in the coastal BC to look at how the wildfires have affected the fragile BC ecosystem-everything from air quality to the salmon migration have been touched. We talk to firefighters on the ground and in the air, trek through charred forests with environmental scientists, and discuss connections to the climate change with BC's climate experts and hear from activist David Suzuki who tells us "we don't even know enough to know if it's too late."
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Thank fuck SOMEBODY is addressing this.
+marshall leng Are you trolling?
***** The forest fires really sucked bad mate.
***** You aren't missing anything.
+crudesicle + fruitcake
+crudesicle ... not our provincial or federal governments, thats for sure. Firefighter for over twenty years here in BC. Was there in Kelowna in 2003 and Lil'wat or Lillooet if you like in 2009 when they evacuated the town for fear of it burning. When people stopped working the bush properly is when all this fire crap started happening...
We live here and have seen stark changes, VICE is to be thanked for this report.
When is this happened in British Columbia?
Every year
Every year? Nothing can be done?
I really shouldn't have to guess that NBC stands for North British Columbia, and if I didn't, I would have had no idea what you were talking about there. A nod here and there to your people is cool, but when reporting from your own back yard, try to address people besides your next door neighbors. It comes off as really, really pretentious. Maybe this mindset appearing more and more often is one reason this video is getting down voted to shit, and why Vice's relevance has been slipping lately. I don't think many regular Vice watchers disagree with the message, in fact, I agree wholeheartedly with it.
Wow, this is crazy. Never thought I'd see my own back yard on Vice o.O
+Johnny Silverstone I know, I feel ya man
+Johnny Silverstone Yeah its like the whole world knows who you are now. Youre like a superstar. Everywhere you go people will be like arent your backyard in a youtube video? Its crazy.
+Johnny Silverstone umm your backyard has alreayd been on vice
Mikey Really? When?
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I live in BC, we were affected. I saw it first hand. Thanks for putting us in the limelight!
+Superb ass agreed. I remember one night this summer getting ripped on blow and looking up to just see fire on the hillside
+Superb ass Hell, in Oregon, we're getting similar things.. About a month ago we got a bad fire and Portland got smoke so bad.. Smelt awful and the sky was red.. Literally... So.. It wasn't a fun couple days.
Phillip Unrau
what the fuck are you on?
im literally screaming
That's part of the reason why natives burned forests every ten years or so. That and to remove the canopy in order to allow for smaller plants like berry bushes to grow. We're fighting fires but we shouldn't. In , fact, we should burn forests on purpose. That would make subsequent fires less destructive. The more you fight it, the harder it gets to fight it, because every year you're saving more fuel for next year's fire to burn. Forest fires are natural, and good for the forests.
You should still put out the natural and accidental ones at a moments notice. Only controlled fires should be set off which is limited in its fuel and can be oppressed with ease. I come from Australia which is well known for its flammable environment and I can agree that lowering vegetation in a selected area does out way an out of control fire. But you should never leave an open flame unattended whether its naturally occurring or not!
IT'S THE BEST THIS FOR THE SOILE.
We are still burning as we speak. 2018 has been our worst year yet.
2017 was worse. Far more evacuations and structures loss.
2019 is now the worst year
loucious22 agree...scary
2019 to 2020 was terrible i was working while I had 73 fires already going in the area I was in and the next day there was 14 more fire going on
Lol why is it always that the first people to comment on Vice videos are conservative trolls. There aren't that many of them, but the ones who do it are consistent and obsessed. Really kind of fascinating.
+Sam LSD Fuck conservatives
They are paid to sway public opinion (attempt...) online through shill accounts. You'll find them on Vice and TYT videos most.
+SCHIZOPHRENlC Your username is fitting.
+SCHIZOPHRENlC It is surprisingly working too. Scary. Should be illegal. We aren't talking birth control we're talking fate of planet Earth. Absolute cookie cutter Rush Limbaugh believers.
OnThe23rd Yes, here on the Internet, this is what you call a username, or alias. Shocking, right?
"here in BC we are known for our wet climate" is something that someone who never leaves Vancouver says...
Re: the comments on this video... How are people so willing and able to accept wild conspiracy theories and way-out-there end-of-the-world predictions with crappy evidence, and then refuse to accept the one thing for which we have ample evidence, which could *actually* result in catastrophe?
Because most people are really stupid.
We're not supposed to say that because as we all know everyone is a special individual who can achieve anything... In reality most of the people watching this video are coated in cheeto dust, tabbed out of several open porn sites and running late for the start of their shift at a generic minimum wage job.
+Sure LOL, I saw some of your comments. I like you, you seem to be a very Informed person and I respect that and furthermore I like how to talk down to idiots who will inevitably die of old age in there dead parents basement.
+Brenden Schneider To add on to what I said. They'll probably die while watching Rush Limbaugh die of stupidity.
The evidence is NOT crappy. Just because mainstream media outlets don't report it doesn't mean there's no evidence. Even a few mainstream journalists are now reporting on this. th-cam.com/video/ysm19Kf84m8/w-d-xo.html
During the peak wildfire season, hundreds of new fires were being reported every day, and the province struggled to get both the human and financial resources to keep up. VICE heads to BC to look at how the wildfires have affected the fragile BC ecosystem…
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+VICE why are some of you videos unavalibaleih
Great reporting and thanks for all the free entertainment:)
Why don't people ask about the chemtrails being sprayed all over Vancouver? You think maybe that's doing something to the atmosphere, VICE?
No shit, Chemtrails are real climate change is Bullshit !
+SuperGogetem no theyre not.... contrailscience.com/
+Pavleshka 2015 was the earth's hottest summer on record and for some reason "persistent `contrails`", that only "happen when the temperature is close to or below -40*, in which case the cloud freezes almost instantaneously and does not readily evaporate", were sporadically and frequently visible all summer...
+SuperGogetem I...uhh...are you guys for real?
tonyfalca
have you ever been in an airplane during the summer? its still very cold up there...this is like science 101...
I'm glad this got covered. The fires were so bad this year, and some of the employees were fighting the fires that were happening around there homes. Very sad.
Really, really hoping we vote that dictator, anti-Canadian image, out of power.
How is he a dictator?
+Stephan Wood
Because the talking face said so.
+SnowSet you people are a cult...
It all Harpers fault? Really? Because the Prime Minister of Canada makes all the decisions. Under no circumstances do I like Harper, but this has NOTHING to do with him. This is about Mother Nature and humanity.
SnowSet we did harper , the cons do not even think climate change is real , morons can not protect the people
I hate it when my igloo melts from a forest fire
Why Doesn't Bc and other parts of Canada carry out burn off? Here in Australia we do burn offs around this time of the year leading up to summer (3 months). prevents a lot of large fires near the Citys
+Justin McDonald We should be. For the longest time we just tried to prevent forest fires which just causes a larger problem with more fuel.
People don't understand forest fires are natural and neccessary for trees to grow.
cities.
Because a lot of forests and lands are protected by the federal & provincial government (i.e the great bear rainforest) Not to mention theres too high of a chance for the fires to get out of control.
WHAT IS WITH ALL THIS HATE?
I live here in bc
they are pretty much right...
not hating and not bias
+Johnny Utah I live 40 kilometers from the nearest wildfire in BC, this summer I woke up to ash completely covering my car every morning for a week, and you're gonna tell me its a lie.
+HangOn2seconds same yo
+HangOn2seconds ... conservatives and Climate change deniers ironicaly starting a "Flame war"
+HangOn2seconds
that accent
I live here in B.C. I can't go outside most days and not see rampant chemtrailing in progress. For anyone who cares to look I suggest you go to "Weather Modification Incorporated" website and find the client page. Clearly states that B.C. Hydro and B.C. Forestry are and have been clients since 2004. Thinking that a decades worth of spraying aluminum, barium, strontium and other nano-particulates has no cause/effect on forest fires in this province is a madness.
+Vengeant1 dude, cloud seeding has nothing to do with your "chem trails".
are people still dumb to not believe in climate change? -..- use some common sense and go to school
also what is up with the dislikes
I am too confused how are people disagreeing and thumbs downing this?
+J Berg Because the PM was also blamed for this out-of-control fire. Seriously, the conservative supporters need to wake up and face the truth rather than defending their ideology.
Unfortunately there are those few who do... I never understood why thumbs down on videos that matter
Because none of these videos ever talk about stuff like geoengineering.
Its amazing how many people are unwilling/unable to see the connection between human accelerated climate change and increased global fire intensity. Just to clarify the nonsensical banter on here, both arguments are right. It is climate change AND forest mismanagement. I have planted over 600,000 trees as well as thinned and spaced, and my family operates a 650ha woodlot. What I find frustrating is the Ministry Of Forests has know for decades that controlled burns and more thinning of juvenile stands is necessary for many reasons, but for the most part they have failed to implement these practices in much of the province. It's important we glean wisdom from these experiences. This cannot be the 'new normal' as the media keeps repeating, and its beyond naive to think we could even survive if we were to accept that, because this year was worse than last year, which was worse than the year before, therefore the new normal would insinuate it continually getting worse every year. I think a lot of people were close to their breaking point this year and it didn't start until August. Imagine if the smoke started in June and lasted 3 months instead of 3 weeks? It's very probably in fact more likely than unlikely. What's more is that the Earth is actually in a brief cooling phase which has just ended. Meteorologists and Climate scientists are saying that we are now entering a period that will see abnormally warm global temperatures, so unless we do something on the management side I have a hard time believing it wont continue to get worse. Fire suppression is the band aid, management heals the wound, lifestyle changes can heal the body. We absolutely must look at the problem this way. Reverse engineer the question and you see the more bandaids we put on we can think the body is healthy even when its not. All 3 have their place in the tool kit required to even attempt to fix this mess we're in. Living more practical lives is an example to our children that we are trying and we care about their future, and also an example for them to take into their lives as they grow. Do you think your kids will remember you for your gas guzzling Range Rover, or that you did your best to give them, and the rest of life on this planet, a future with clean air? If you really need a status symbol, buy a Tesla. Remember, the Earth gives us every single thing we have. Everything. There is nothing more important and definitely not the economy. When the planets natural regulators are disrupted, everything from manufacturing to global food production and resources will be greatly stressed. The economic losses will be unfathomable and permanently getting worse as food crops decline. The cost of prevention in hindsight will look like a drop in the bucket, much like getting your alignment fixed or not, and crashing full speed into a wall. Let's all work together, Im sure almost the majority of us want the same thing in the end. There are only 4 choices. science right, do something, science right do nothing, science wrong do something, science wrong do nothing. We now have A.I. and supercomputers working out these simulations, and it has become clear the science is right. So while some may disagree, there are now only 2 choices. We hold the future in the palm of our hands, its that real. We have to wake up from our catatonic slumber and act on the 'theories' that have turned to fact, not in a century or even a decade, but right in front of our very eyes, every year getting hotter,drier and smokier. Taking action on a personal level will at the very least give us and our children hope.
Wudup! Vancouver!
We chill bro, only thing that burns in Vancity is weed, not the forest. No wonder so many dislikes. Peace!
+Loud Mouth yeea buddy guiiye
+Loud Mouth lol bruh idk where u be at but just this summer there was a huge wild fire that cause all of greater vancouver to be covered in smoke
+Bernie Liu gzggxgxgddg
+Hung Nguyen (GTHP95) VAN LOSER!
Finally Oliver gets some recognition. I thought this town never would.
I'm nit-picking here, but the footage shown @ 15:08 is not India, but Pakistan. A channel like Vice News are not supposed to make such silly mistakes. Dents your credibility.
+trippinghard Not exactly nitpicking, showing Pakistan as India would offend a whole lot of people from both of those countries. They shouldn't be making mistakes like that. Don't feel bad for mentioning it- you are right
Vancouver is so beautiful
Living in BC, this really shocked us this year, and we had so many cutbacks from the Harper government that we were not prepared for this
sure "Harper literally destroyed Canada" I have heard an assload of that nonsense... but dont worry- saint Suzuki will save you, I mean look at all the things he has done to help the evacuees, like donating some of his government gotten millions , offering up rooms in one of his 3 mansions , lending one of his fleet of Jeep Cherokees... OH wait, none of that happened
Too true. My peeps are Ottawa-people. The ones with money hated Harper, the ones without thought he was god and all his industry loving, and social cutbacks were saving money. Of course every dime he saved will cost $10 in the near future, as the bill for damages climbs through the clouds. The Fat Donnie Wannabe that just took over Ontario, dissolved the EV incentives and immediately incurred a multi-million dollar lawsuit from Tesla, which they will lose and have to pay. Un-f'xxxxng-believable. Now those cash incentives go straight to the manufacturer, rather than to Ontario citizens who would like to buy an EV. Look for suits from Nissan, BMW, Chevrolet, the whole gang. Governments are not going to fix anything.
To mitigate this, all petroleum investment has to be slowed to nothing, in the next few months, and all the cars and trucks have to be taken off the roads in the next year. What will you drive? How will the economy function? Should have asked yourselves that question ten years ago. Stop building Camaros and start building Leaf's. The whole country must move to an all electric economy as fast as it can with an effort that would make WWII look like a picnic.
Governments will very quickly not, be able to pay for the damage of wind, rain and fire-storms.
For the skeptics who think my diatribe is reactionist BS, simply watch the insurance companies. Call one and ask them what it now costs to insure a house for fire, in BC's hinterland. Or any hinterland. Ditto for floods. Hurricanes you haven't felt yet, but this year or next, the Atlantic hurricanes will start to penetrate further north, crossing into Canada (tail end for now) soon. Know this fact: Each year gets worse, forever. If you're ten years old now, you won't see 25.
Hippy(Bboomer) You have no idea what you are talking about as far as medicinal marijuana. It must be hard to live on such a high horse. It's interesting how in your mind the only way is the conservative way. There will always be conflict if you do not allow a difference of opinion and there will always be conflict if you acuse the other party of stupidity simply because they don't see the world through your old wrinkly eyes.
@Hippy(Bboomer) And you do? You have all the answers eh? It's funny how a liberal in your view is either an educated teacher or a simple stoner. I do take the compliment, though Iam no teacher but Iam an educated liberal. The so called "enemy within". What you fail to see is the world isn't as black and white as you think. Once you stop pointing fingers and shouting your tits off life gets better.
@Hippy(Bboomer) I don't need to tell you anything. And I'm sure as hell not telling you that your opinions don't matter. You don't need to be a liberal to have a heart, just human. One day you will see just how meaningless political borders are. Or maybe you won't
The chemical spraying in BC IS OFF THE CHARTS/
NWO mad-scientist evil agenda.
Chem-trails can not be up to any good. Mad-scientists out of control.
you can't fight fire with couple firefighter you need army to put that shit out.
Why look at all the burning trees when sticking your head in the sand is so much more comforting?
Hey thanks for doing something on BC, I am not a tree huger nor do I really like watching things like this. But this was really well put together kept me informed without putting me to sleep. THANKS!
Tinder inc well said
so, what fucking conspiracy blog linked to the video? no way all these hilarious individuals found their way here all by themselves.
chemtrail nuts coming out of the woodwork.
Let it burn its self out like it’s supposed to for thousands of years, do not build near the woods if you do not take care of the land by removing the dead fuel (layers of dead stuff under the green,) making sure that 4 inch holes 4 feet down do shoot water bobs into them by passing that ash that will not let water through.
BC has fires again this summer this year 2018
there was literally a fire right next to my house yesterday ( I live in west Vancouver)
More tricking bulll crap/
The lady in the middle of this video explains the situation so articulately
It's weird this is from 2015 and 2 years later British Columbia wildfires have made Washington's air quality drop...we are almost worse than Hong Kong, those fires need to be put out!
Why do the wildfires need to be put out? Not so easily done, I suppose you knew?
I work in Vancity and I live in Surrey, feeling it fam. Our poor province :(
Just a quick question: Is it possible that the fires are not getting worse because of global warming, but actually because of overgrowth? In the Western US, rangers used to put out fires all the time throughout the 20th century. This allowed overgrowth to grow and then cause huge fires that are uncontrollable.
It is definitely a variable. Here in Australia we set off controlled fires to lower fuel for one to get out of control.
All the unlikes are from Americans voting for Trump.
plant some trees quickly! it does make a difference
Wildfires are a natural occurrance and serve important ecosystem functions.
David Suzuki never ceases to amaze me, that was such a powerful monologue. We need more people like him!
No we don’t need anymore like David Suzuki
@@itiswhatitis4018 we sure dont
im watching this in florida, and "climate change" is an illegal word, should i call the national guard?
I love vancouver and BC as a whole, it will always be my true home
Fire is a natural process. Fire crews are a make work project.
Even worse now, BC’s in a state of emergency
"we're the problem, we're the crisis, we've got to pull back"
Fires weren't put out in those forests 200 years ago. What do you think would just happen if they let the trees burn?
Nature would handle it okay. But we should look into preparations for wildfire season, and building more firesafe homes.
David Suzuki for the fucking win.
Fire is needed for the health of the ecosystem in the long term
A lot of people don't realize the fact that one reason we are having such intense fire seasons is due to fire suppression itself. The more fuel we allow to build up on the forest floor the easier these fires start and the more intense they become.
BC has always had wildfires, do some research
Why let a simple thing like truth get in the way of media bias and a wicked leftist agenda to control everybody? (sarcasm)
Not this bad I live in burns lake and have four majyfites around or town, I just bought this property last year and took a month to get here due to the fires last year cost me more to get my stuff here ... but this year I'm frightened by the four fires around us. Two areas Francois lake and Fraser lake have been evacuated to our town. This is so surreal to point of stores being low on food now more than ever in year .... just letting you know it's greater than what's being put out there unless you live near fires you don't know the fear of where you can go next .... where do we go when there's fires 🔥 everywhere?
this is why we need to let nature take its course instead of interfere with it
It seems like it could be a lot cheaper to let forest fires naturally burn themselves out. Nature never seemed to need human "help" to manage its forest fires.
surreys bad so much smoke shits crazy
god bless the firefighters!
I see this report as really biased from the reporters view. If you are going to report Report and hold integrity.
Vice is always biased.
+stephen Aaron was obviously convinced global warming was why the fires were intensifying. He completely ignored the answers the experts were giving him.
It seems like BC gets it bad every six years.. Or just about..
Perhaps more so, because they don't let wildfires burn naturally anymore, letting the natural fuels build up more and more.
Wow. I've never seen David that pissed off before
Dr. Gabor Mate's son.
It just keeps getting worse and worse which sucks cause Vancouver used to be a place that experienced all 4 seasons properly now it’s just hot hot hot....even winters...
Thank you David !!!
For more than 30 years i echoed the resources needed such as aircrafts to be built and utilized to the best advantage to deal with active and passive fires this is vital as the Canada's geography is huge and the ever growing climate change ever evolving conditions The future aspirations is to build more installations and communities of receiving first aid from BC forestry services.
Here we go again..
I thought this was recent.... .nope........... welcome to hell.. . August 2018. Does anyone have any oxygen?!!?
I am not a "climate denier", but it has been revealed that the vast majority of these wildfires has been caused by human activity, which has increased dramatically since the snow melted. Also, it is important to understand that Canada has ignored repeated warnings from foresters that the boreal forests are at their end stage of life as mono species coniferous over growth forests. Native tradition speaks of annual controlled burns to keep end stage forests in control. Excessive industrial cash crop lumber industries use highly mechanized systems to over control forest fires to protect the value of timber. Finally, political agendas and "mainstream media narratives" use fear mongering to sway public opinion towards a "new green economy" protocol and the "Great Global Reset" as espoused by the Davos collective and the WEF.
Excellent video, big support for the hard working men and women of the B.C. Wildfire Service
Please be careful
This Canadian lives in southern California. I'm watching the twin engined prop planes dropping water and/or retardant. Down here we have an emerging mini-airforce for that sort of thing, there are a lot of unused commercial planes about. I think I saw a 747 converted for that, but if it wasn't, it was a 737 or some other airliner. We've lost quite a few fire fighters, you start to think about that and realize, the risk these people are taking. They're incinerated. The fires move faster than they can run. One truck had 7 corpses in it. Another single firefighter was caught in a Firenado. A furnace at 2300 degrees F. Whole neighbourhoods are utterly untouched except for two or three random houses that "caught" some embers, which burn to the ground. Like a WWII air raid.
We're at about 200 ft. above sea level, in the low desert, (Palm Springs) where it's as hot as Death Valley. Consequently, there isn't much fuel in our neighborhoods on the desert/valley floor. Two years ago we watched a fire as long as the mountain we were looking at, from our backyard. It burned from 8500 ft down to 4000 ft and quit, what a show. What do we do about it?
You can do a lot to your house to prevent embers from lighting it up, so we have a two year plan to redesign the exterior. I've just finished installing a 5.1 kwh solar PV system with large battery backup that can charge our Electric car afternoons, straight from the sun and battery combination. We stopped burning gas in 2012 with our first Chevy Spark EV lease. On a spreadsheet, these changes over time reduce our costs dramatically, for power and transportation. Forget Global Warming, I do it because it's cheaper, and I'm Scottish. We now lease a Fiat 500e for $121/month. No maintenance, no fuel, just tires and wiper blades. It's the cheapest car I've ever had to operate, and it's brand new (2017) and marvellous to drive.
But you live in Canada so you can't do any of that. So everyone thinks.
The woman with the forestry department said that they havent been allowing ground fuel to burn off during natural fires. No wonder they are having bad fires. What does global warming have to do with that? Same problem with california
Yeah cos if you let it burn off the sheer amount would escalate the issue 10x more.
i think agree with you. You cant let it burn off now. An ounce of prevention. They should have been doing this for years
Why not let it burn off? You want to wait until the problem is even worse?
Finally a video I find interesting prob cause I live in bc☺
For 3 days in a row, in a recent July, we had bright orange skies in Vancouver BC. Cloudless skies. Bright orange! The light from forest fires change the sky. Next summer : smoke was the theme. Joggers were recommended to stay indoors, basically don't go out. In summer. The best time for outdoor fun.
Vancouver is safe from Tsunami, protected by the Mountains on Vancouver Island, and thus sheltered from hurricanes. But fires, with all that fuel (forest), fire is a very real and increasing danger.
Very informing its very bad this year 2018 bc fires will be the worst its august and we have just about 550 fires burning
To anyone that’s arguing this and doubting what the video is saying. Just because you don’t like what you hear and what this reporter is trying to shed light on, DOES NOT MEAN ITS WRONG!
These people he’s interviewing aren’t just internet trolling self taught researchers that get their information from the internet. They are people that have dedicated their lives to studying it and getting certifications to prove they know what the hell theyre talking about. This is a serious issue! Yes they’re talking a lot about climate change, no they’re not saying fires are only caused by climate change, there are many different factors. Climate change is so real! I’m a university student working as a bear guide in the Toba Inlet where there are two huge fires burning. This video is important on so many levels. This is the first summer I’ve seen in 20 years that had a terrible thunderstorm and lighting storm that caused 12 new forest fires on North Vancouver Island ALONE. That has NEVER happened before. Even the lighting is getting more intense. Why? Because everything is getting hotter. The world could be on fire and you STILL wouldn’t say it’s climate change. Ffs
My dad's fighting 'the big one' and we FINALLY got to get a call from him last night. He says the prediction is all the fires will merge...
I'm terrified for my dad, I know they are being cautious and safe but seeing everything? only hearing from him every once in a while? It's hard. I'm hoping for the best and praying for all the firefighters.
I am not normally a fan of Vice but just to make it clear how bad the fires are... its bad. They aren't wrong there.
I think we should be careful when talking about the effects of climate change. It's easy to point out correlations between global warming and hurricanes, but that doesn't imply causality. Global warming is real, but no one has been able to show global warming having a statistically significant effect on the frequency of hurricanes. In fact, the GFDL concluded that there is no statistically significant effect of global warming on the frequency of hurricanes. Source: www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Stephen Harper, I think we could watch a hockey game together, but I really think you need to find yourself a new job. I mean it sincerely and honestly that I just don't think this country needs your leadership. There are Canadians who have excellent morals, education and experience that could do your job and really do a great job. Fortunately they're leaders of other parties... please retire! You deserve it. Cheers
I keep on hearing from simpletons how "hearts were here first" Well yes and no..There is no need alive that has live longer than I've been alive. So I claim my plot of land...the bears can pass by or bugger off.
This also applies to forests...trees... lightening.
You put you timber home in the middle of a forest and wonder why lightning touched off a forest fire....and their house turned to ashes.
The trees and the collective forest have had a working relationship long before people out wooden houses in the forest.
The lightning and trees were there FIRST.
Countries have military special forces Canada has the Special lumberjack forces
Im trying to shed light on the situation im from BC
Chem trails are a legitimate concern out here in the west. They are spraying metal particles into the air every day when the air conditions/wind speeds are right. The metal particles capture moisture and carry it inland via the Jetstream. It works much like how aluminum in your deodorant is used as a antiperspirant. This effectively steals our rain here in the northwest and distributes it to inland area's affected by drought. They get water and we get burned, literally.
I dont understand why so many people plug their ears or close their eyes to the questionable things our govt/large corporations are doing. Its like people dont want to know the truth, that they are happy in their apartments/cubicles, living like a hamster.
I believe the climate never changes, it has been ideal for human habitation for 4 billion years, and now we ruined it. I also love sarcasm. What would be awesome is the ice age that's overdue by a few thousand years, think of the fun we would have then. Hopefully we haven't stalled or prevented it altogether because mass extinction is a hell of a good time. I guess it really doesn't matter that the most productive times in human history have been the warmest, we have gortex now.
I live in the region, and choked on smoke for over 45+ days.... people saying this is "normal" and not a result of climate change and environmental destruction need to STFU. Experience this first hand and not from some apartment in a city.
3 years later in BC it has gotten worse, this is 2018. Well, this year, not as much forest burned but a lot of them are infrastructure fires now, affecting a lot of communities and settlements. The smoke in the province is bad, but now has blown off. We need rain bad as of August!
We decided need to pull back, and switch to solar, and wind. Tesla makes a sick line of cars, plus they have built quick charge stations all over North America. Canada will be next for charging stations. Unless Harper stops him.
So if climate change is increased by humans... and climate change is increasing the rate of which forests in canada burn... which will then increase amount of c02 emissions in canadas air... won't that just increase the potential of climate change in that region?
it is 2018 right now and I couldnt travel to Osoyoos due to the many forest fires. As we speak right now Richmond BC and the lower mainland isbeing blanketed by a layer of smoke ,it has been like this for weeks august 2018 its not getting any better
Global warming doesn't only create scorching summers and warm winters.
In regions like Scandinavia and regions far north of the equator, winters has become increasingly severe.
Southern interior resident. Fires all around and smokey. Neighboring towns evacuated to our area. Volunteered at the center and see the people stressed out. Watching the news everyday to see if its near us. You really start to think about climate change when this sort of thing is happening. I think it may be time for change.
BC resident here that works in the forestry industry and typically votes conservative. This is a pretty good analysis of the situation and most recent fire season. Next summer will likely be bad as well as El Nino weather pattern this winter typically gives us a lot of rain and not much snow at lower elevations.
Not sure what all the downvotes are about, weird.
In bc there's like 150 water bomber planes but they're not used. They just send fucking helicopters with buckets of water and like 12 firefighters out into the flames.
First thing I see when I visit this video is David susiki complaining about harper. Well what the fuck are you doing about it Mr David Suzuki ? Absolutely nothing.
People are not realizing that this is from 2015 not 2017/2018. I live in williams lake, where one of the worst 2017 bc fire took place. We got evacuated for almost 2 months.
This only ask a question is y natives don't own land in less go tru treaty because all this land is stoleing and now we all are getting punished four your transgression NATIVES only want to protect this LAND
Funny the canadians have spoken and they found there Prime Minister to be a conservative turd and now you have a unifier in office, young, bold, and liberal. Someone who genuinely cares for his people and the earth.
Letting it burn, so all that smoke drifts into nearby towns&causing cancers and other illnesses?? Or growing out of control& incinerating nearby town's??? Doesn't seem like the best plan.
Last year was the worst ever . The satellite pictures from space were crazy June this year 2018 it's getting pretty bad but mind you the smokes not as bad in Vancouver
in Oliver, the average summer temperature has been raised from 35 C to 45 C in less than 3 years. It's obvious that global warming is a thing. I'm afraid that this summer might be too hot to even go outside
Finally the video is unblocked. I guess they had a mix up with making the video appear in the subscriber feed and actually releasing the video, hence the dislikes.