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Webcam in Kelowna pointed towards the west. Watch the fire creep down the hill towards the city
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Climate change makes these fires more likely every year, so what are we doing about it? I don't want my children to inherit ashes and badlands.
We will all need to come to terms with the scope and scale of our predicament - climate change is not 'the' problem, it is one facet of the overall collapse of the biosphere that we are causing (see: planetary boundaries). Guaranteeing some livable future for our children will require revolutionary change in our economic systems and our relationship with the environment. Real mitigation will involve: reserving our remaining carbon budget for critical activities (heating our houses, food transport, etc), significant build-out of resilient systems (local sustainable/regenerative agriculture), and preparing for a less complex economy with much lower energy use. We can do this in a controlled way over the next few decades, or in a chaotic way when we are left with no other options. It doesn't seem like the public is ready or willing to have these conversations yet.
I'm in complete agreement. Humanity will transition to sustainability the good way or the bad way. The good way involves making some tough decisions and calculated sacrifices, while the bad way involves despair, famine, mass migrations, war and genocide.
But it will all eventually settle down to sustainability, one way or another. That's why I'm an optimist.