SPEAKING OF MISINFORMATION: News stories don’t even make sense anymore.

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I wasn’t going to write today–it is my day off, after all.

But my heart rate jumped after I saw this story and I had to spew some bile, lest it build up to an unhealthy extent.

My local paper posted a story–in their “sports” feed–that literally made no sense at all. They are so desperate to push their climate change propaganda that they not only shoehorn it everywhere (sports?), but the premise needs no longer to make sense.

Behold:

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The underlying issue is poor forest management practices which lead to worse forest fires than would be normal. OK, fine. Public policy problem.

But the framing?

“Climate change virtually ensures future fires…”

Uh, what? Without climate change, there would be no forest fires. Is that what they are saying?

Yeah, well, no. Not exactly. Because forest fires are “something Indigenous people survived for eons.”

So forest fires have existed for eons (obviously so)…

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In which case WTF does climate change have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing, of course. Not one damn thing.

But climate change has to be in the story because…climate change has to be in the story. In the sports section.

So my local paper writes a story about bad fire management practices in the sports section because the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) is used by sportsmen and finds a way to bring in both climate change and Indigenous people–two of their favorite topics–for no apparent reasons.

 

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