When fire can eat a rainforest in a relatively cool climate, you know the Earth is beginning to burn

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. My soul is crying over this.

We lived in the Olympic Peninsula when I was growing up, and in the Cascades.
My dad was a "bush" logger,who made cedar shakes from what was left after a timber cut. All it took was an old beat up pickup, a few mallets and froes, to split the cedar. We kids would carry the shakes to the truck until we were tired, then could go play anywhere in the forest.
My uncle collected ferns and other greens for florists, it actually paid well enough to support a family which could live off game and fish.

I honestly remember saying.." Oh no, not trout again for dinner".
This was back in the late 40's and all thru the 50's, when lots of people in the Pac. NW were living what we now call a small footprint lifestyle.
Other people called it being poor, but one could live a low expense life back then in many rural areas of the state.

It was an eden. and seemed such a normal place to live in.

Now the salmon are dying from too hot water in the Columbia, Washington is having massive fires all over the state, this has been a summer
sun and no rain, which is a mind blowing reality to those of us who know how rare sunshine is in Western Wash.
And a rain forest is actually burning.

Politics has to change in this country if we are to move towards a path of sanity.