Canada’s wildfires could cost billions, kill thousands if nothing is done: report | Globalnews.ca: The scientists, including Mathieu Bourbonnais, assistant professor of
earth and environmental sciences at the University of British Columbia
Okanagan, predict devastating wildfires such as those currently burning
in B.C. and elsewhere in the country will be commonplace by 2050.

The
group has released a paper predicting billions of dollars in
suppression and indirect fire costs as well as hundreds or thousands of
premature deaths due to exposure to wildfire smoke if climate change and
fire causes are not resolved.

Canada’s wildfires could cost billions, kill thousands if nothing is done: report | Globalnews.ca: The scientists, including Mathieu Bourbonnais, assistant professor of
earth and environmental sciences at the University of British Columbia
Okanagan, predict devastating wildfires such as those currently burning
in B.C. and elsewhere in the country will be commonplace by 2050.The
group has released a paper predicting billions of dollars in
suppression and indirect fire costs as well as hundreds or thousands of
premature deaths due to exposure to wildfire smoke if climate change and
fire causes are not resolved.Read More