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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American fires

Canadians: hey we’re gonna help you out!

Canadian fires

Americans: You’re ruining our summer!

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

It's the American way.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure would help if they'd committed to Paris or any environmental standards.

And they should deal with their own forest fires. Remember when we sent firefighters there just this year when Trump was going on about 51st state crap? I remember.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried sweeping your forests, I remember that was the issue in California. /s

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

Says the country that believes in clean coal

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Canadian firefighters were just in the US a few months ago while Drumphkins was flapping his lips about annexation.

Fuck the regime!

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey congress. Remember how Canada and Mexico routinely send us help when our fires get really bad? Well?... Do you not think we should return the very huge favor?

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly what I was thinking! Instead of helping us, they are complaining about something that is not in control.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Obviously it only makes sense to help Canada if it becomes a state. Half the reason they help with american fires is because they want to be a state so bad. /s

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mitigate your pollution which is increasing temperatures first, instead of doubling down on Big Oil.

I'm so tired of the US as it currently stands. We need to build 400 nukes, then turn off ALL the supplies we send.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canada is lucky to get a chance to have America’s pollution because it’s the greatest pollution this world and maybe universe has ever seen.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I see you've chosen to show us your real name, rather than your alter ego, Don.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Username checks out. How is it you’re only 1 day old? Are there multiple Satansmaggotycumfarts? WTH?

Anyway, Trump and repugnican quarterwit reichsführer can gargle nuts.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Piefed.world account, so probably just started it up.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s no way that’s not satire making fun of trumps asinine speech patterns.

[–] ehxor@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

Why doesn’t God Emperor Trump just tariff the smoke?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just farted and waved it in the general direction of the US. Enjoy.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Never wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it."

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

How about go fuck yourself you useless bunch of fascists.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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We as humans have only ourselves to blame for these wildfires. We're pushing this planet to it's limits and it's only going to keep getting worse.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

Nah, don't you read the newspapers? Global warming is fake. If it were real, why does it get cold still?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

We have also mismanaged our forests. Northern boreal forests are supposed to burn. We have stopped that from happening. Through in global warming and e have a tinderbox just waiting to ignite.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey Republicans, to fix this issue, build a bunch of wind turbine power generators to blow the smoke away.

Are you trying to kill the beautiful birds and drive the whales crazy?! /s

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

We have a plan to deal with this.

Step #1 is to let one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gasses destroy itself in a civil war.

[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We've purposly lit all these fires just to ruin their summer, totally intentional, I swear it.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

That’s 70% tariff for you!!! 🍊 🤡

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2 solutions:

  1. US resolution to accept global warming as real, with commitment to lower emissions on top of forest management resources in both countries (US wildfires occasionally annoy Canadians)

  2. US buys more Canadian Pine lumber.

We have reached a global warming tipping point where forest fires are at such extreme levels for 3 years in a row now, that fires offset global natural carbon capture from trees, which is about 1/4 of human emissions. Some of the arson, has been motivated by climate disinformation as "attempts to prove global warming is false by arson". Global warming's impact on forest fires is not more ignition. It is faster/wider spread of fires.

If everyone in Canada were employed as an "arson preventer", they could patrol 10 hectares of forest each.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The forest fire thing is a combination of stuff not just global warming. Our forests have evolved to burn down And we have been preventing it for decades. Now we have forests with tons of deadfall and drier conditions die to global warming. They are going to be bigger and hotter fires.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've heard Pine monoculture is a contributor. Spruce is more fire resistant, and Pine beetles make kindling. Natural forests have a mix of Pine and Spruce.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pine beetles make kindling?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Kill the tree making it more flammable.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Clean up all the C8 and other PFA's yall polluted the world with

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

“We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air,” reads the letter signed by Republican House representatives Brad Finstad, Pete Stauber, Michelle Fischbach and Tom Emmer of Minnesota, along with Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin.

republiQans all, as if it was a question.

[–] opus86@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So,how about trying to come up with solutions rather than loudly whining about everything?

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

The only solution those fuckheads will pull their thumbs out of their assholes for is the final one in Gaza.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yah. Nah, fuck them.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck it, start a controlled burn at the border when the wind is out of the North.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We are going to teach the Canadians to stop being such kind people. muhahahah.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Interestingly 24% of Canadians have a favorable view of the US and 87% of Americans have a favorable view of Canadians. Thats a 63% mismatch, and it was trending way down even before trump.

https://angusreid.org/trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-usa/

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/1263527125/its-been-a-minute-canada-us-relationship-politics

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Maybe the US could behave like climate change exists and actually do something about it?

Or nah.

Enjoy the wildfire smoke dumbasses.

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[–] teppa@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I agree with most people here, lets fix climate change instead of doing controlled burns and forest management. Wildfires arent a natural part of the ecosystem, and before big oil began supplying my SUV and my flights to Tofino with energy they never occurred.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uhh, yes they did. There are trees that have evolved to take advantage of the aftermath of wildfires.

[–] teppa@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My sarcasm couldnt be layered on any thicker, sorry about that.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Poe's law strikes again!

[–] faxed@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
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