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Thank you Ben for getting to the core issue. How arewe altering the conditions that lead to the impacts we areexperiencing. The tar-sands are creating a horrific setof conditions that is both a environmental and health disasterand it will create more as the run off kills water systems andthe oil transported seeps into the environment from eachmethod of transport. K. Peterson Lowlander Center Supporting Lowland People and Places through Education, Advocacy and applied Research www.lowlandercenter.org 304-266-2517 > Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 21:27:12 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Canadian wild fire -- the physical background > To: [log in to unmask] > > The last few days RADIX has hosted a very good discussion of the fire in Alberta, evacuation efforts, long term social and economic consequences, and the irony that the Alberta tar sand industry at the center of this affected zone is fueling the very climate changes that may well have a role in conditions that have triggered this massive fire. > > Here is a discussion of those physical background conditions: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36212145. > > All the best, > > BEN > > Dr. Ben Wisner > Aon-Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, University College London, UK > & Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania > & Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA > > "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."