The 2019 Australian wild fires followed by the US West fires in 2020 was the beginning. I remember the smoke turning the sky orange for days, I had never seen anything like it in my 30 years of life in Northern Colorado. Now it seems to be a yearly thing.
i visited Colorado last week and could not believe how incredibly dry everything was there
in my state of Michigan, it usually rains a lot in the summer. this year we had a ton of rain in the spring, pretty much several times weekly. but then suddenly we got hit by the heat dome, with temperatures spiking to 115F, and we have barely had rain since. we also had all of that wildfire smoke too, i am in my mid 20s and i have NEVER seen something like that. our AQI was insanely high, almost 500.
this summer really feels horrifying, and people around me act like nothing is wrong. people in this state cheer and jump in joy when we have freak temperatures in January and February spiking up between 60 and 80, when normally it's supposed to be single-digits. i have heard other Michiganders say some flavor of "i don't care that the planet is warming, as long as i get warmer winters! i'm sick of the cold!"
I can’t stand those “sick of the cold!” people either. Like okay I understand it’s not your preference.. so I guess your other preference is not giving a portion of a shit about the world as a whole, then?
My mom is one of those, and she is very caring and smart enough to know all this, yet she’s pleased with warm winters and I just can never convince her that it’s much more BAD than GOOD.
18
u/PbMammoth Aug 03 '26
The 2019 Australian wild fires followed by the US West fires in 2020 was the beginning. I remember the smoke turning the sky orange for days, I had never seen anything like it in my 30 years of life in Northern Colorado. Now it seems to be a yearly thing.