And fair enough, people are worried about their homes, families and future.

In this time of crisis, climate activists are quick to link the fires with climate change.

However, I have not witnessed any organised initiatives from protesters to help put out the bush fires.

Which is confusing since the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released from bush fires are extremely alarming.

According to Senior Research Scientist with Natural Resources Dr. Werner Kurz the British Columbian fires of 2017 burned 1.2 million hectares of Canadian forest.

His estimate was that the direct fire emissions were about 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide which was up to three times the emissions from fossil fuel burning from all other sectors in the province that year.

According to NOAA scientist Pieter Tans, head of the carbon cycle greenhouse gases group with the Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, a very large, very hot fire destroying 200,000 hectares could emit the same total amount of CO2 as six large coal-fired power plants in one year.

That puts an estimate of emissions equal to 30 coal-fired power plants just for these recent bush fires alone, which is six more coal-fired power plants than our entire nation owns (24).

If these protesters truly cared about CO2 emissions and not stopping people from going to work, they would be there trying to stop more carbon from being released into the atmosphere.

Firefighters are desperate for help and there can never be to many SES volunteers.

But instead we will most likely find them once again protesting against mining while holding an Iphone.

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