Siberia just experienced wildfires on a staggering scale. Russia is rethinking how to fight them

Four years ago, Russia instituted a policy of letting remote forest fires burn unless it made sense economically to put them out.

For several days, dark clouds blanketed the cities of Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk — each home to more than a million people — hundreds of miles from the fire’s epicenter.Siberians begged the government to ignore the cost efficiency regulations and extinguish the remote fires. Russian President Vladimir Putin finallyNow Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the government to examine the “control zone” burn regulations when parliament convenes next month.

“When the law was drafted in 2015, it never occurred to anyone that the wind would be able to bring smoke from the fires so far,” said Andrey Sirin, the director of the Institute of Forest Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Often the damage to people’s health is much worse than the damage to the economy.”

“The problem is not only the fires this year,” said Anton Beneslavskiy, a forest fire expert with Greenpeace International in Moscow. “The problem is that these fires happen every year, and with more intensity. Previously it was one catastrophic fire a year, now it’s a lot of them and in different parts of the world.”According to Russian authorities, they burned more than 11,500 square miles of Siberian forest, including areas north of the Arctic Circle.

It estimated that the fires had already released 138 megatons of carbon dioxide, more than the annual emissions of many countries.

Instead of developing new radioactive or supersonic weapons, Putin should focus on how to quit the Siberianfires

Lo que dicen los ambientalista es igual a como tirarse un pedo en medio de un huracán

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Dammit, gotta buy compressed oxygen now. 😩😱😵😖😭 Idiot environmentalists. LOCKLEFTISTSUP!

Seems like we were doing it wrong. Judging from the CO2 numbers released by the Siberian (and current Amazon forest) 🔥s -- the forest fires prevention has a higher priority than cutting on industrial pollution. Took us by surprise 🤔

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