Environment challenges Canada again
Pensioners and people with chronic illnesses can suffer most because of fires.
For the past weeks, we've been writing about what's been happening in Canada because of the fires: first it affected Alberta, then fires started in Nova Scotia, and now the French president is tweeting to the Quebec premier that the French Republic is coming to help. Tens of thousands of people are temporarily displaced, forest land is engulfed by fire, and schools are closed due to safety concerns.
Although environmentalists, economists, and politicians have yet to establish the damage and figure out how to put the diesel back on the road to peace, we can already speak of a huge blow to the ecology that Canada has been trying to protect for so long. This is primarily due to the air pollution with carbon dioxide.
The Environment and Climate Change Canada has published a pollution scale for several Canadian cities. As for the Canadian capital, air quality has been at its highest since Monday.
The scale is very simple: if there is no or minimal risk, it is a number 1; if the risk is critically life-threatening, it is 10 or just a "+" sign. In Ottawa on Monday and Tuesday it was 10+, and only dropped to 10 by Tuesday afternoon.
What experts say
Some of them are discouraged by the situation and are very critical of the situation today.
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