The Canadian wildfires, with heavy smoke blanketing huge areas of the US as well, generated more catastrophising hysteria than light, just like the bushfires in Australia in the summer of 2019 to 2020. The debate over how much this is evidence of a climate emergency owing to global warming, or needlessly destructive fires resulting from neglect of prudent forest management, is also reminiscent of Australian debates.
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