Why humans can’t outfight Canada’s boreal fires
Every summer, as smoke from Canada’s boreal forest drifts across North American skies, a familiar chorus erupts online. Amateur fire commanders take to social media with seemingly obvious solutions: Why don’t we just send in more water bombers? Why not just doze a perimeter around the fire?
- ▪Every summer, as smoke from Canada’s boreal forest drifts across North American skies, a familiar chorus erupts online.
- ▪Amateur fire commanders take to social media with seemingly obvious solutions: Why don’t we just send in more water bombers?
- ▪Why not just doze a perimeter around the fire?
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Open this photo in gallery:The boreal forest is not merely susceptible to fire – it is an ecosystem structurally designed to burn, writes Glenn McGillivray.SuppliedShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountGlenn McGillivray is managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and adjunct professor of disaster and emergency management at York University.When the wildfires get rolling, the armchair experts get trolling. Every summer, as smoke from Canada’s boreal forest drifts across North American skies, a familiar chorus erupts online.
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