Canada’s fires indicate that humanity is living in an “age of fire,” says Prof. | amazing
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Fires in Canada suggest humanity is living in an ‘age of fire’
Over the course of the week, more than 400 fires have been burning in Canadian forests. More than 200 of them are completely out of control. This event forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.
According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, this will be a particularly intense fire season.
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The wind ended up dispelling the smoke, which was no longer a health hazard. However, fires persist in Canada, according to Stephen Payne, who He was a firefighter for 15 years Before you became a professor of environmental history at the University of Arizona, humanity lived in the “Age of Fire.”
“We are creating with fire the equivalent of the Ice Age. Replace snow with fire. There are changes in sea level, there are mass extinctions of species. We have fires in places where there are large glaciers,” he explains.
According to a report issued by United Nations Organization (United nations) Produced by more than 50 scientists as a result of global warming The frequency and intensity of major fires will increase by 14% by the end of this decade and 50% by the end of this century.
But for Professor Stephen, that number underestimates the fires.
“I’m sure the numbers were carefully thought out, but almost all forecasts underestimated the fires. They happened earlier and on a larger scale,” he says.
What New York has experienced these days, in fact many cities in the Amazon experience each year.
Brazilian Ane Alencar, Ane Alencar, Director of the Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia Institute, has been awarded in 2022 for research that led to the creation of the MapBiomas Fogo platform, A deforestation alert system that generates maps for what she calls “the scars of the fire,” with data and images from 1985.
She points out that the warming of waters in a region of the Pacific Ocean, in the phenomenon known as El Niño, is causing concern in Brazil.
“It is expected that the year will be drier with a higher risk of fires. Therefore, in order for this not to happen, it is necessary to work from now on in the process of awareness and prevention, but also work from the perspective of reducing deforestation is very fundamental,” he explains.
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