While the people of the USA took on the climate crisis as they could, the government never saw anything except it's corrupt goals of pandering to the petroleum industry and other fossil fuel interests.
On Sunday April 12 Khakassia, (click here) a Russian federal republic around 2,100 miles east of Moscow, went up in flames. Squalls fanned a number of small fires, creating a conflagration that swiftly spread to some 40 settlements, killing 30 people. More than 600 required medical attention and almost 5,000 people were left homeless. An emergency situation has been declared for the region.
Seven other regions have found themselves in a similar situation. Small fires are being extinguished all over the country, from south western Siberia's Kuzbass region to the Moscow suburbs. According to official data, forest fires already extend over more than 100,000 hectares. Gregory Kuskin, head of Greenpeace Russia's fire prevention project, says the figures probably underestimate the true situation as fires in open areas are categorized not as fires but as inflamed heaths and are not included in the general statistics.
"The burned settlements in Khakassia and Zabakail are not the results of forest fires but of those that take place in the open territories," explains Kuskin. "They are not registered as fires and this is why it is difficult to estimate the dimension of the disaster. A similar situation can occur in [the Far East's] Khabarovsk Territory, where local officials have said that they are starting the large-scale burning of grass, as well as in the European parts of Russia."...
