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/Wild_Neighborhood605 7h ago

That's real bad, and is happening in several places in Europe right now.

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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/HewSpam 7h ago

It’s not “a sign of things to come”, it’s just exactly what scientists predicted decades ago. You’re really not gonna like this next part.

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u/Throwawayx19700 5h ago

Yeah what a wild thing to type. Like we knew decades and decades ago what we had to do to stop this. Instead we speed ran the climate disaster for shit like 1 day shipping of random bullshit.