Some of you people are being a little overdramatic. IMO
I'm curious what part you think is over dramatic?
Some samples:
I am in Ohio. We normally don't have to deal with natural disasters much.
poisoned air
I guess this is what summer will be like going forwards?
It really has an apocalyptic feel to it.
It is very hard on your mental health to be socked in by pea soup smoke on what should be our best, brightest summer days.
Summers are too short here to be stuck inside all the time.
I was shocked to see tons of people sitting outdoors eating dinner!
Nothing like a raw throat despite wearing an N95 while watering the garden to up the climate change anxiety.
There's truly no place safe. It's wild.
but yesterday mid day Toronto had the worst air quality in the world.
But... many of these are just stating facts.
"I am in Ohio. We normally don't have to deal with natural disasters much."This is just a statement of fact. People from certain regions are less accustomed to major natural events. How is this an extreme statement?
"poisoned air"Smokey air is poisonous. This isn't an opinion, it's a medical fact. Some jurisdictions are looking at banning gas ranges because of the safety to people exposed to them, so an air full of very noticeable particulate for long periods of time is inarguably poisonous. This isn't rhetoric for dramatic effect, it's simple fact.
"I guess this is what summer will be like going forwards?"This isn't dramatic at all, it's just restating what literally every expert is publicly saying, repeatedly, and asking governments to better prepare because their current approach is insufficient. Again, just someone observing that they are going to have to accept a fact.
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It really has an apocalyptic feel to it."
I mean, it does. Even just esthetically. When I looked outside at the orange sun and the smoke so thick that I couldn't see the ocean in front of my house, it was fucking freaky looking. Behind my house was totally clear and this thick, stinky cloud was moving in at us. It was literally exactly like the scene from "The Mist," but with the crazy looking orange sun.
When the world around you suddenly looks dramatically different and you know it's because a nearby fire has been deemed "out of control", it's pretty reasonable to say it has an apocalyptic feel. Especially in regions where people have never experienced it before.
"It is very hard on your mental health to be socked in by pea soup smoke on what should be our best, brightest summer days."
Again, do you live in a northern climate? These are fires in Canada.
Do you know what it's like for nice summer weather to be a precious thing? In my region, the moment there's a bit of sun, people are outside BBQing in t-shirts even if it's still literally freezing and the ground is still covered in snow. We wait half the year to be able to just leave the house without having to plan protective gear. Losing that is emotionally hard, especially when you are being told to accept that it will likely happen more often.
Also, "pea soup smoke" sounds incredibly accurate to me. The air is yellow and thick and gross. Throw in heat waves where the air already feels like "soup" and it makes perfect sense. In my home city, the worst of the smoke coincided with temps of over 40C/104F.
"Summers are too short here to be stuck inside all the time."This might have been my quote?? If it is, then I'm currently at my summer home in Newfoundland where it was snowing 8 days ago. I'm not being dramatic about the weather here, the weather here is dramatic. May and half of June here were winter weather. Half the year there are hurricane winds here and it's hard to go outside. When the heavy smoke came in, it was during our first hospitable weather of the year and we were told to stay inside. It was unpleasant outside, and people were extremely upset that our first days of sun, in late June, we couldn't comfortably spend time outside. Everyone here is grateful that our weather turned back to being fucking cold and rainy because it made the smoke go away.
You try living in northern Newfoundland, lol, I guarantee you too will get a little dramatic about the weather.
"I was shocked to see tons of people sitting outdoors eating dinner!"I don't know where this was or how bad the smoke was there, but in some places with how heavy it has been, that would be surprising to see.
"Nothing like a raw throat despite wearing an N95 while watering the garden to up the climate change anxiety."I mean, again, this is just stating a fact. If someone is having throat pain despite wearing an N95 mask, that would be reasonably distressing, especially if the smoke hangs around for a long time
"There's truly no place safe. It's wild."When I'm not in Newfoundland, I live in an inland city where growing up I had never seen a single extreme weather event except for many epic winter storms. In the past few years we've had major tornadoes, 2 "hundred year floods," and now weeks on end of uncontrollable wildfires.
It was a place that less than 10 years ago I would have assumed would never really deal with any of these things, so it's not unreasonable for people to find it "wild" that there really don't seem to be any places left where you don't have to worry about major natural events.
If you know of an area that doesn't experience these events, feel free to share.
"but yesterday mid day Toronto had the worst air quality in the world."Again, this is just a fact. How is it overly dramatic to state a fact? My inland city often gets colder than Mars. That's just a fact. It's not over dramatizing the cold to state a fact. If a place is colder than Mars, it is just factually colder than Mars. If the air quality in Toronto is the worst in the world, then it is the worst in the world.
I can't imagine what that's like. Our few days of heavy smoke waaaaay out here on this remote island were pretty unpleasant, but nowhere near as bad as it was back home (my other home is not far from Toronto). With how badly swollen my eyes were out here, I'm incredibly grateful that I'm here and not at my other home dealing far worse air quality for weeks on end.
So again, if you have a body that doesn't react much to literally poisonous air, or you don't live in a region that is heavily affected by smoke, then that's great for you.
But I'm truly surprised by you categorizing statements of fact as overly dramatic.
I hate to say this because it sets people off, but that is literally the definition of gaslighting.
