All your forests are at risk!

In an article published in The Globe and Mail June 30, 2023, page A5, "Canada and the U.S. must collaborate to solve our wildfire crisis," authors Robert Gray and Robin Gregory declare an all-out final war against Nature in a proposal to remove "billions of tonnes" of biomass that "needs" to be removed from our forests. Goodbye biodiversity; goodbye successional flora ecosystem development. This is yet another dangerous advancement of Progress, trying to convert the planet into a city-scape.

Large-scale forest fires could be Nature's remedy to our increasing of the greenhouse effect via CO2 emissions. The equilibrium global temperature increase with present CO2 levels is about 10°C. This level is presently being mitigated by about 8°C by aerosols. Our human-caused global heating dries out the forests; perhaps Nature is remedying the situation by sacrificing some forests, converting them to aerosols thereby lowering the warming. Shall we yet again interfere on a large scale with Nature's systems? Are we that addicted to fossil fuels? Of course it should be the humans, cars and planes that get burned off the planet, but that creates much more toxic smoke. How do anti-environmentalists like this get a public forum instead of hard time?