Men's Lifestyle August 3, 2026 0 Comments

Why Our Country’s Biggest Climate Crisis Has Been Flying Under the Radar — and What It Means for Your Future Fitness and Health Goals

You ever notice how ignoring a little warning can turn into a full-on disaster party? Well, that’s exactly what’s been happening—and not on some distant planet, but right here in Spokane, the city where I celebrated my 46th birthday… now at risk of going up in smoke. Wildfires have exploded across neighborhoods, sending thousands scrambling and firefighters scrambling harder, only to be grounded by something that could’ve been avoided altogether: drones buzzing overhead like pesky flies. It’s like watching a heavyweight champ get distracted mid-fight by someone throwing paper airplanes—completely avoidable, utterly frustrating. Meanwhile, Canada keeps its cool amid similar chaos next door, showing that maybe being an adult in the room actually makes a difference. And if all this isn’t enough to make you question the state of our priorities, we’re also back on the merry-go-round of mass shootings—because apparently, when there’s a problem with guns, the answer is always “more guns.” Some fires burn underground, waiting for oxygen to explode into flames—kind of like how these crises seem to smolder till they blow up in our faces. What’s next? Keeping drones out of the fire zone—might just be the easiest thing we do around here. Ready to dive deeper? LEARN MORE

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A couple things this administration has decided to ignore have come along to bite it—and the country—in the ass over the weekend. First of all, Spokane, a lovely city in which I spent my 46th birthday, is in danger of burning up. From KXLY4:

Spokane’s mayor says it could be days or weeks before some people can get back into neighborhoods evacuated in the path of multiple Spokane-area fires. Mayor Lisa Brown pleaded for patience in a news conference about the fires Monday morning. Thousands of people had to leave their homes as fires exploded in the Spokane area over the weekend. More than 700 structures have burned, many of them homes, while thousands of people are still not allowed back in their neighborhoods. The most impactful fire is the Old Trails Fire, which started in Airway Heights, jumped the river in Riverside State Park and spread into Indian Trail. “The impact on people’s lives is truly profound,” Governor Bob Ferguson said. He spoke of first responders who are under evacuation orders and still out fighting the fires.

And here’s something modern and dumb.

Firefighters working on the three major wildfires burning in Spokane County report personal drones are hurting their efforts. According to Tom Stokesberry with Incident Command, firefighters had 26 incidents of people flying personal drones over the fires. Because of that, they had to ground air support for safety which hurts their efforts.

Jesus, people, use your heads for something besides hat racks.

In what seems like almost incomprehensible good luck, nobody has been killed in the Spokane fires yet. And because Canada is governed by grown people and not angry toddlers, there have been no communiques from Ottawa regarding retaliation if the smoke blows off toward British Columbia, which, incidentally, has its own similar problems right now. For decades now, scientists have been warning us that one way the climate crisis will manifest itself is in increasingly larger and more frequent wildfires. They will continue to do so. The least we can do, if we’ve decided to do nothing else, is keep our damn drones out of the way.

Meanwhile, despite the increased heat and drought, we still seem to be overwatering the tree of liberty. We’re back to one mass shooting a week again. From The New York Times:

At least three people were killed and seven others wounded. The afternoon rampage, the authorities said, might have been worse if not for the “heroic action” of an off-duty state trooper and a private citizen who returned fire and slowed the gunman. “We believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties,” the Twin Falls police chief, Matthew Hicks, said during a brief news conference Sunday. Chief Hicks identified the gunman as Chad Williams and said that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot, but offered no other details, including possible motive.

Great. Now we will hear (again) how the solution to the problem of too many goddamn guns is more goddamn guns. Some forest fires burn underground until they find an oxygen source and then violently explode into the open. I’m just saying.