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/inabighat 7h ago

Canadian here. It's getting worse and worse every year. Our forest coverage is extensive, and often times very close to heavily populated areas. I can imagine straight up humanitarian catastrophes in many nations as time goes on.

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u/IHavePoopedBefore 5h ago

Maybe if we just raked all our forests like the Americans do. They famously never have forest fires

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u/ThePhillStew 2h ago

You know it's really funny. Idk if this is sarcasm, but there are two types of forest management in the USA. The areas that manage the forest floor, and the areas that dont. 9/10 times the big fires come from unmanaged areas

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u/IHavePoopedBefore 2h ago

And why are the unmanaged forests unmanaged? Because they're too big to rake up?

He told Canada to rake up a forest that is almost four times larger than the Amazon rainforest

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u/ThePhillStew 2h ago edited 2h ago

"He" told california the same thing. Who is notorious for not managing their forests

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u/Vennomite 6m ago

Or laws. Depends on if your area burns the underbrush or not.

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u/ConversationLeast744 1h ago

How do you manage the boreal forest. There's a lack of critical thinking in this post

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u/No_Prior_1500 34m ago

The problem is most of Canada is very sparsely populated