AS WILDFIRES RAGE, CLIMATE EXPERTS WARN: THE FUTURE WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT IS HERE
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ince the early 1990s and even before, climate experts have been trying to warn the world against the continued environmental pollution. They have been warning the world that a day would come when human beings will suffer the wrath of Mother Nature due to the continued environmental pollution and plunder of natural resources. Since the beginning of 2020, massive wildfires have been slowing engulfing most parts of the U.S., Australia, and Siberia. The gigantic wildfires have already sent hints of how climate change threatens to destroy ecosystems around our planet. As 2020 took its course, huge wildfires, something that has never been seen before, broke out in Australia, scorching more than 65,000 square miles, an area larger than Illinois. Fast forward to July, wildfires fuelled by an intense Arctic heatwave swept across Siberia. In recent months, dozens of catastrophic wildfires have swept large regions of western U.S., including Prichard’s home state of Washington. Millions of acres engulfed by flames across California, Oregon, and Washington, leaving a trail of 36 deaths. Susan Prichard, a forest ecologist, and a research scientist at the University of Washington, who has been studying the connection between wildfires and climate change since the early 1990s, has made it clear that global warming significantly contributes to longer and more intense fire seasons around the world. This raises the questions; could this be the future experts have been warning us about? Could it be too late?
