Avebarna Fridays for Future

NYTimes 04-01-2024
Canada’s Boreal Forests Badly Damaged by Logging - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Canada has long promoted itself globally as a model for protecting one of the country’s most vital natural resources: the world’s largest swath of boreal forest, which is crucial to fighting climate change. But a new study using nearly half a century of data from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec — two of the country’s main commercial logging regions — reveals that harvesting trees has inflicted severe damage on the boreal forest that will be difficult to reverse. Researchers led by a group from Griffith University in Australia found that since 1976 logging in the two provinces has caused the removal of 35.4 million acres of boreal forest, an area roughly the size of New York State. (..)

2024-01-12

Canadian blues

NY Times 23-08-2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

(..) This was not another report of melting icecaps, rising oceans, blistering heat or unusual tornadoes somewhere far away; this was a horizon-to-horizon pall over us, rising from infernos across the great Canadian north that had been ignited by record temperatures, record drought and ceaseless lightning storms. Nothing like it had ever happened before — these wildfires began far earlier and spread far faster than usual, and they have burned far more boreal forest than any fire in Canada’s modern history. (..)

In the news, other tensions and anxieties are again taking precedence over climate change — the war in Ukraine, indictments of a former president, tensions with China, a new Covid variant.

But it’s hard, very hard, to look out on the familiar lake and forests the way we used to, before the sun was reduced to a murky red dot in an orange sky and an orange pall descended on the children playing on the beach.

2023-08-24