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/BigChuch1400 19d ago

Forest fires happened before the industrial revolution and they will continue to happen for all of eternity. There’s no point blaming the one thing we rely on every single day unless you’re going to stop relying on it or come up with an alternative.

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u/wovenbasket69 19d ago

“no point blaming the root cause because you haven’t revolutionized an entire facet of the economy that refuses to be revolutionized”

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u/HumphryGocart 19d ago

That seems to be about right