Alberta Burns Due To Climate-Change Fueled Wildfires, Yet Provincial Government & Media Refuse To Mention It
, which included a single person’s perspective that included climate change, Mike Flannigan, research chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson University, and author of the study linked in the second paragraph making it clear that climate change was extending Alberta’s fire season.
What the heck is one article doing in four papers that are otherwise almost entirely ignoring the links between climate change, the province’s major industry, and wildfires? Well, they are all owned by Postmedia, a media conglomerate that owns virtually all the newspapers of any size in Canada except the longstanding national newspaper, the Globe & Mail. And Postmedia is a very conservative, very corporate friendly, very oil and gas friendly corporation..
Is it any wonder that large swaths of Alberta’s populace think the federal government hates Alberta and is trying to kill the goose that lays the egg-shaped tarballs? Or that Smith gets off scot-free for not mentioning the linkage between wildfire, climate change, and the provincial industry? Is it any wonder that, as of 2019, believed that there was any linkage between climate change and human...
Is it any wonder that the one good government Alberta has had in the past 40 years, Rachel Notley’s NDP, the government responsible for shutting down Alberta’s coal electrical generation as part of the only government to have a, scraped into office after an even worse provincial Conservative administration than usual and a divided right-wing, and only lasted one term? Or that Notley and the NDP are only 50% likely to win an election against Smith and the UCP , despite their climate change...
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