Smoke from wildfires in Canada at Hersheypark. Hershey Triple Tower is left of center, and the Fahrenheit roller coaster is at right. June 8, 2023. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.comCode Red air quality and public health warnings were issued for the Harrisburg area on June 7, a consequence of intense and record-breaking wildfires in Canada. This points to the harsh reality that global climate change is not isolated, it knows no boundaries.
For thirty years the powerful have denied the savage realities of global heating, eco-system destruction, and more recently, the Sixth Great Extinction. Additionally, the public has been deceived by corporate media as to the serious and surging nature of the threat. Power protects the powerful; the powerful protect power.
This, unfortunately, leaves much of the public in a state of ignorance and confusion regarding where to point fingers and about what can be done to prevent the rampaging eco-horrors from raging out of control, as they will, unless there is some kind of concerted effort, by a critically informed, engaged, and organized public, to address the root cause.