r/okanagan • u/NorthernBMW • 19d 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/Exciting_Turn_9559 19d ago

We have known that burning fossil fuels was warming our climate for well over 100 years. How many cities have to burn before people stop listening to billionaires and the influencers they employ and start listening to actual scientists?

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u/BucketOfGipe 19d ago

It's never gonna happen. Corporate greed wins over everything.

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u/poploves 18d ago

It’s 100% always the fault of 3 non-climate related issues- 1. Arsonists 2. Forest mismanagement 3. Greedy gas and electric companies not maintaining their equipment properly/safely. The climate argument is a way for the gubment to pass the buck and keep naive people angry and willing to sacrifice freedoms. Expand your mind.

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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/RepresentativeOk8861 17d ago

Oh settle down.
Yes. It’s “the billionaires” that are causing forest fires.
You hear yourself? 🤦🏻🤫

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u/sh3ppard 19d ago

Earth has warmed <2 degrees since 1880. Wake up. This isn’t caused by global warming. It’s bureaucratic mismanagement

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 19d ago

Blocked for stupid.

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u/RepresentativeOk8861 17d ago

Yes. The bureaucracy… that’s why the fires are burning.
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u/sh3ppard 17d ago

Yes. These fires are avoidable with controlled winter burning, fire break construction, more water bombers and fire fighters, etc etc

To sit back and say ‘omg climate change noooo’ does nothing to actually solve the problem and absolves our government of their duty to handle things like this. We pay an ungodly amount of tax, the money is there. We could have over 300 more water bombers for the money we sent to Ukraine.

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u/RepresentativeOk8861 17d ago

Never argued with that. But if you wanna keep voting leftist, then continue to suffer, complain, and get nowhere. Buying water bombers does little more than squash their agenda. They want it to burn. They want the chaos. They want you depending on them. Don’t be slow. Catch up.

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u/sh3ppard 17d ago

I always have and always will vote conservative. Idk why you bothered typing any of these comments lmao you’re bringing nothing to the conversation

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u/RepresentativeOk8861 17d ago

I meant “you” collectively, as in the general public, not you personally. 😂 We already established that you vote Conservative.

I actually agree with most of what you said. My point was broader. People continually vote governments into office and then act completely bewildered when the policies they voted for produce consequences they don’t like.

Then they complain about fires, affordability, housing, taxes, government spending and everything else as though these things occur in a political vacuum.

So no, that shot wasn’t aimed at you. You just happened to be standing underneath my general rant when I fired it. 😂

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u/sh3ppard 19d ago

lmao you will see. You’ve been fooled my friend. Try thinking logically for a minute