Eerie Days: Smoke and Haze, All Around
To the Editor: Re “Northern Fires Spread Smoke and Anxiety” (front page, June 8): The hazy skies and air quality alerts afflicting large parts of the United States because of wildfires in Canada are a reminder of how fragile and interconnected our world is.
In California, we understand this all too well. Wildfire season is an annual event, complete with Spare the Air alerts, rolling power outages and stunning but ominous scarlet red sunrises and sunsets.
On Sept. 9, 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area awoke to what seemed like a postapocalyptic world, veiled in a smothering sky that glowed orange because of smoke and ash from a massive complex fire 150 miles away.
This is a reminder that no part of the world is insulated from the environmental effects of global warming, and that we must be better stewards of our precious planet Earth — the only home we have.
