Hazy, Hazy, Unhealthy Days Of Summer

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​HAZY, HAZY, UNHEALTHY DAYS OF SUMMER

    Dear Future Cyberarchivist who, while sifting through ancient internet postings from bygone centuries in search of the history of humankind, has come across this blog chronicling the events and observations of life as it was near the end of the first quarter of the 21st Century AD:
    On this day, Thursday June 8, 2023, wildfires are blazing across the country we of this age call ​Canada and these fires have already incinerated almost 10 million acres of forest,

...and made the air unhealthy to breath in parts of Canada,

...but even worse in parts of the United States of America, its neighbor to the south (and my and my native land), to where the prevailing wind currents have carried and deposited the soot-filled smoke.
    Today New York City, the great American eastern coastal metropolis that is a densely-populated world center of culture and finance, has the worst, most health-hazardous air pollution on the planet, worse than this city has ever known. The populace has been warned to stay indoors if possible, with windows closed. Those who venture out must make their way through the dirty, acrid-smelling orange haze in which the city is blanketed.

     Though New York is suffering the worst fallout from the Canadian wildfires, the smoke from the fires is blowing over two thousand miles down the east coast of the continent, from the Canadian state of Nova Scotia to the American state of North Carolina, and another thousand miles westward to the state of Minnesota.
       I live in the city of Columbus in the Midwestern area of the United States, 500 miles to the west of New York. The air here has been hazy for the past few days, with the sun nonetheless making the  effort to break dully through the haze.
​      My backyard today.

      We here in Columbus have likewise been advised to stay indoors if possible, as an air quality of 121, while categorized as unhealthy for sensitive groups, 

...is nonetheless far from a healthy 0-50 reading for anybody.

      We haven't been told when the smoke from the Canadian wildfires will clear. Nobody seems to know. All the scientists seem to know at this point is that the heat and drought caused by climate change are the cause of these wild fires, the same conditions that caused the wildfires that are now burning all over the world, scorching away the earth's cooling forests, decimating our water supply  and polluting the air we all must breath.
       As of this day, we humans have already been suffering the consequences of climate change for years, not only in the form of fires, droughts and noxious air, but in monstrous storms and floods as well. And for just as long our scientists have been warning mankind that if serious action is not quickly taken the worst climate catastrophes are yet to come. 
       And yet, as of today, even in the midst of a massive fire and air pollution crisis, we humans have not been able to garner the collective will to save our planet and ourselves.
       Which, of course, begs the question of you, Cyberarchivist of the future: Did we ever manage to?

References:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/06/07/new-york-citys-smoke-filled-air-caused-by-canadian-fires-explained/?sh=8146dfd4b61a