Fighting Canada’s Unending Fires

<p>The wildfires sweeping Canada have become the largest in its modern history. Across the country, 30 million acres of forest have burned — three times as much land as in the worst American fire in the past 50 years.</p><p>The scale has forced an international response and a re-evaluation of how the world handles wildfires.</p><p>Firefighters on the front lines discuss the challenges they face, and David Wallace-Wells, a climate columnist for The Times, explores how climate change has shifted thinking about wildfires.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells">David Wallace-Wells</a>, a climate columnist for The New York Times. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>With most of Canada’s fire season still ahead, the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html"> </a>country is on track to produce <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html">more carbon emissions from the burning of forests</a> than all of its other human and industrial activities combined, David Wallace-Wells writes in Times Opinion.</li><li>Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/world/canada/canada-wildfire-fighting.html"> shift from suppressing fires to preventing them</a> as they become more difficult to combat.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>