Nikolas KozloffAnd presumably, #environmental #protest is outlawed in #SaudiArabia. What gets me is lack of environmental protest against #wildfires in #liberal #Canada, which presents itself as vanguard of anti - #Trump opposition, though country is one of top historic emitters
https://www.iqair.com/newsroom/middle-east-air-quality-spotlight #Climate #airquality
Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:@Nikolas@federated.press I hope you will join the aerial tour of our forests when we will invite your government just to have a look-see.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/canada-wildfires-republicans-experts-criticism-climate-change-1.7604323
The root cause are not the wildfires. The root cause is humanity using fossil fuels and gas beyond our planet’s limits. Wildfires are a symptom of that.
And yes, we’re aware about wildfires. And yes, we are fighting them with all available resources 366d/year - which incl. preparing for the next month.
Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:@Nikolas@federated.press We don’t protest wildfires because it wouldn’t make any sense.
We protest against the governments’ environmental inaction. The fact that you don’t hear about it doesn’t mean it does not happen.
Nikolas Kozloff@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca Oh? There are environmental protests in Canada?
Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:@Nikolas@federated.press
2024, Montréal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/climate-protest-jacques-cartier-1.7361189
2024, Vancouver:
https://ubyssey.ca/news/we-are-already-in-crisis-hundreds-march-in-vancouvers-global-climate-strike/
2021, Toronto: https://thevarsity.ca/2021/11/14/cop26-queens-park-toronto-protest/
2019, Montréal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49856860
Nikolas Kozloff@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca I meant now in the context of wildfires
Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:@Nikolas@federated.press And to what purpose? Have all the wildfires put out?
What you’re suggesting is the equivalent of us asking the USA to protest:
- Wildfires in LA (2025)
- Wildfires in Hawaii (2023)
- Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Irene (2011)
- Hurricane Fiona (2023)
- Hurricane Debby (2024)
… at the same time!
Wildfires and poor air quality from them are the symptom and consequence, not the disease.