It has been like this in California and the southwest for almost a decade now. In the PNW for five to eight years. Why would the East experiencing it change anything?

The jump between "this summer smoke is new and scary" to "we need to build solar and nuclear power plants" is so huge that almost nobody makes it.

By the second smoke incident it's just weather, a normal part of life.

It will create more conspiracy theories to allow some people to ignore it even longer.

Half the country thinks its cool/funny to "roll coal" so nah

I don't know if 'sleepwalking' is the right word. Is there a condition where one side of the brain is a asleep while the other is screaming for it to wake the hell up?

Didn’t you hear? Fox News said it’s no big deal and that is the most beautiful they’ve seen New York.