Paige Fischer, an environmental sustainability professor, highlights the growing impact of wildfires driven by climate change, particularly affecting regions in the U.S. Midwest due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center currently reports 201 active fires in several provinces, many deemed out of control. Fischer notes that as a society, we must adapt to the increasing frequency and severity of wildfires and their air quality implications. Experts emphasize that this trend is becoming a new norm, urging preparedness for worsening conditions.
Even though I study this, I haven't completely caught up in terms of planning ahead to make sure there's good filtration systems where I'm staying.
Wildfires are happening more frequently. They're getting bigger. They're emitting more smoke. The climate models are projecting that we're going to have more frequent, more severe wildfires.
The hotter, drying conditions that come with climate change are making these annual fires across North America, and in other parts of the world, the new norm.
Smoke knows no political boundaries and will affect all of us despite local firefighting efforts.
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