It's tempting for the colonizer alienated from the living world to look at these forest fires and say shit like "humans are a virus". They think that it's on fire *because of humans*, who they view as some intruder on "nature" which is pure and good.
Humans have been a part of the ecosystem in NW ON for as long as that ecosystem has existed. When the glaciers receded following the last ice age, all of the boreal species spread there - including people. It is in large part removal of these people which have contributed to this.
Humans have been a keystone species there since time immemorial. If you wanna know who's not being a keystone species, look to who's living with the land versus who wants to dominate and extract from it.
Land back.
CedarTea
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