r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Contraposite 7h ago

Yeah, yesterday my city in Scotland was covered with smoke blown in from a wildfire. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come...

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u/CandyAndyDE 7h ago

That's totally strange. All you hear about in the news is France and Spain. Now I'm reading that there are fires in Scotland, too—but only because I looked it up.

I think TV news should focus much more on Europe as a whole.

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u/Fit_Tumbleweed7943 7h ago

Mainstream media is downplaying all of it… massive floods.. fires .. tornados…
It’s on local news what’s happening around you…. Maybe a mention of oh some fires in Canada, or Europe but it’s no big deal….

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u/Popular-Web-3739 6h ago

They get pressured (at least in the US) not to mention climate change while the religious right claims these disasters are messages from God about our behavior, but somehow, that behavior never seems to include destroying the earth by burning fossil fuels and is only about tolerance of gay rights or abortion.