True Apocalypse

Fires such as these are running rampart around the world; such as the wild fires in California. The pressures from the outside are putting heavy pressure on the president of Brazil. This shows the heavy connection between politics and environmental catastrophes.

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2019 at 6:08 AM

    There was a fire that started in Paradise California called the Campfire that started just 8 hours before the Woolsey Fire in California, completely eliminated the Paradise city, it doesn't exist anymore. All everyone was posting about was the Woolsey Fire even though "The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. It is also the deadliest wildfire in the United States since the Cloquet fire in 1918 and is high on the list of the world's deadliest wildfires; it is the sixth-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall.", burned down 18, 804 buildings and 1/8 people got evacuation warnings. Whereas the Woolsey fire destroyed only 1,643 buildings and every cellphone, television, etc, had evacuation warnings on the screen.

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  2. chrheaSeptember 15, 2019 at 9:04 AM

    Link to article? Expand on summary a bit (this seems like a paragraph started in mid-thought).

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2019 at 7:19 PM

    I did not even know about the fires going on in California until people started talking about it. It is hard to believe that so many things can be destroyed in such a short amount of time, and it is amazing that they have not come up with an effective way to completely prevent forest fires.

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