“The Approach Of The End Of The World”
As the New York Times reported this weekend, locals in Yakutia are entering their third straight summer of having to pitch in to fight the fires that are ravaging their region. They are frustrated that there seems to be comparatively little help from the Russian government to stop fires from destroying the forest that many of them rely on for their livelihood.
“This is not a phase, this is not a cycle—this is the approach of the end of the world,” Semyon Solomonov, a resident of the village of Bulgunnyakhtakh, told the Times as he and his fellow villagers worked to put out a fire burning nearby. “Mankind will die out, and the era of the dinosaurs will come.”
