Canadian wildfires (bushfires) are ironic

An image from Canada's 'wildfires"
illustrating nature's
 reply to human misbehaviour.

Wildfires (bushfires in Australian terms) threatening crude oil production in Canada are ironic.

Climate change has unquestionably worsened circumstances entrenching the out-of-control Canadian blaze; a blaze seriously disturbing the country’s oil industry, an industry key to eventualities unsettling Earth’s climate system and so changes the processes upon which our survival depends.

The cycle it seems is complete – in a process stretching over billions of years, Earth buried carbon that would disturb its equilibrium; man discovered it just a couple of centuries ago, dug it up, burned it and the resultant imbalance is manifesting itself as climate change.

What’s happening in Canada, if you can apply such a nature-driven conspiracy, is “payback”.

Read Catherine Ngai’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “BP declares force majeure, warns on oil deliveries as Canadian wildfire burns on.”