For the Water Docs Film Festival ARTivism challenge theme “Water is life: Interconnection” I was thinking about the inescapable this summer: the way so much of this country is and has been literally on fire, I began to conceive of my water cyanotype as one half of a diptych. All 13 provinces and So far 150,504 km squared, or as much as 4% of the forested area of Canada, has burned.
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This is an area larger than the entire country of Greece. This is about 5 times the average yearly area affected by forest fires and much of the continent has been bathed in smoke through the summer.
Climate change causes warmer and drier weather and has radically increased the risk of forest fire. We can expect extreme weather events with increased frequency and severity. Many regions have been left praying for rain.
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