Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

So there was a giant fire last night or this morning just up the street from me. I didn't know about it until I drove past it and snapped this looky-loo picture out the car window. They'd blocked off tons of streets and there were fire engines and police everywhere.

I am very worried about the way that Canada has been doing its logging over the last while. We've been doing some very disturbing large scale clear-cutting, and “thinning”. I'm not sure which is worse, but both of them leave a forest that is hugely more flammable than an old-growth forest (which burns slowly — slowly enough that animals just walk away from it — rarely kills the larger trees, and usually burns less than a hundred acres).

If global warming is real (and who knows, it's also possible that we snap back into an ice age after a brief warmup), and the temperature in Canada climbs just a few degrees on average, and we're going to see this country burn to the ground border to border. Sheesh, I've been writing about the apocalypse too much… I think I need to focus on editing interviews instead.