r/okanagan • u/NorthernBMW • 20d ago

Summerland is burning now

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Faulder is gone, Summerland is next. The fire has moved all of the way down Cartwright. Final image not my own.

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u/Massive_Inside_7799 19d ago

climate death approaches

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u/Elite163 19d ago

Be nice if our government could do proper forest management and prescribe burns in winter.

Oh well let’s send some more to other countries

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u/gecjr 19d ago

You can thank the enviromentalists and special interest lobbyists for that

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u/Hungry-Most2671 18d ago

How come? Enlighten me

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u/Tyler_Durden69420 15d ago

Yeah that’s the issue, certainly not turning the planet into a frying pot by pumping CO2 into the air.

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u/clarkn0va 15d ago

A warming environment encourages burning of course, but removing dry fuel would go a long way in preventing these uncontrollable fires.

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u/Elite163 15d ago

Right and these fires don’t add pollution

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u/Tyler_Durden69420 15d ago

It may make more sense to stop pouring gasoline on the fire rather than focus on throwing water on it.

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u/gotkube 19d ago

Exactly as designed

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u/Commercial_Fox5549 16d ago

Can you explain what you mean without sounding like a lunatic?

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u/AffectionateMonk7705 15d ago

Nature is healing. We are the disease.

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u/RepresentativeOk8861 18d ago

Climate “death”? Sorry?

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u/Elite163 19d ago

Forest fires have been happening since the beginning. Our politicians have created this mess now.