re: New York' air quality plummets as Canada wildfires roar

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Was just speaking to the brother-in-law again. He says the news is saying something like 30 lightning strikes in northern Ontario started the fires, but he says a lot of people are saying the government started them on purpose.

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It doesn't take the government to prop up the fact that the majority of wildfires are human-caused. Some of the same people who would buy into a conspiracy that government started wildfires are the same people who will do a shite job putting out a campfire, or dragging a chain on a trailer, or flicking a cigarette out the window.

"Human-caused" doesn't necessarily mean arson. In fact, "human-caused" and "arson" are two separate things when it comes to determining how a wildfire started.