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I’ve been saying it for years, but I don’t think the reality has sunk in for most people. Here in Alberta, a lot of farmers crops are failing and the more the glaciers recede, the less fresh water we’ll have. They don’t think of these things when they sell water leases to companies who use it for fracking and coal mines.
As far as plants, fish, animals and humans go — extinction has already started. The heat and smoke killed over 600 people in BC last year. We’re not racing against extinction, we’re running towards it. š
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Canada In The Year 2060
Canada In The Year 2060
āWe knew records were going to be broken,ā says Castellan. āBut that doesnāt give you the reality of what was about to happen.ā Temperature records typically break by tenths of degrees, like speed records for the 100-metre dash. At its apex, the heat dome that engulfed B.C. that month eclipsed some records by more than five degrees, driving temperatures up to 25 degrees beyond seasonal averages.
Across the region, roads buckled, car windows cracked and power cables melted. The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame. Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees. More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress. Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished, their organs exploding outside their bodies. Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks. Birds and insects went unnervingly silent. All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight. The air pressure was so high theyād all dissipated.
Then came the fires.
At night, he set up a tent in his backyard so his three young childrenās bodies could cool down. When Victoria set a record high of 39.8 degrees, he tried not to think too hard about what that meant for the future his kids would inherit.
āThereās an apocalyptic feel to something that different,ā says Castellan. āItās like when you witness an eclipse. Thereās that very strange sensation: all of a sudden it gets dark in the middle of the day, and the birds go quiet, and everything is strange. It was like that, on a multi-day level. Itās like the sun just grew in size.ā |Read more https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/|
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