Fort McMurray: Oil sands boomtown
Boom
times,time town
2013
Fort
McMurray, Alberta is the epicenter of oil sands mining and people
from around the world have flocked to find jobs. High wages have
inflated the cost of living and some struggle to manage the money
they make. Some people spend too much on entertainment or get caught
up in drug use. Others, though, have found success and are building
new lives in Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray is indeed completely on fire and a ridiculously warm winter featuring lack of snowfall combined with hot and dry spring conditions are the causes. It is another very clear example of climate change and this is only the beginning. I lived there for a time. It is desolate at the absolute best of times.
ReplyDeleteNorthern British Columbia is also tinder dry and will be in the news soon enough.
Humanity is doomed and these types of events are hardly the 'canary in the coal mine' They will continue and can only get worse, globally. Do we have another generation left? (25 years?) Personally I doubt it more every single day.
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