Friday, May 6, 2016

back to Fort McMurray in Alberta Canada- massive quick wildfires that have led to 88.000 people as refugees from  the latest assault of man made climate change-but with an additional element of KARMA...best article yet, by Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker....
"The town of Fort McMurray, some four hundred miles north of Calgary, in Canada, grew up very quickly on both sides of the Athabasca River. During the nineteen-seventies, the population of the town tripled, and since then it has nearly tripled again. All this growth has been fuelled by a single activity: extracting oil from a Florida-sized formation known as the tar sands. When the price of oil was high, there was so much currency coursing through Fort McMurray’s check-cashing joints that the town was dubbed “Fort McMoney.”
Now Fort McMurray is burning."

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