🇺🇸 영어 원문
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada after hundreds of wildfires have left much of the northern US choked by a blanket of smoke.
The threat follows complaints by US lawmakers over the wildfires and Ontario’s premier Doug Ford asking the US to send support to fight the fires, rather than complain.
“The United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air,” Trump said, threatening to impose new levies over Canada’s “willful negligence”.
As of Friday, there were about 888 fires actively burning in Canada, according to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, with the majority burning out of control.
Trump said in his post to Truth Social that would call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to demand an explanation over his country’s “willful negligence,” accusing the country of “not properly maintaining” their forests and brush.
Canada has not responded to the threat but Carney earlier noted that it was the responsibility of both countries to fight climate change.
According to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, nearly 3 million hectares of land in Canada has already been destroyed by the wildfires.
The impacts have been far-reaching, with a thick blanket of smoke spreading across US states, from Minnesota and Michigan to Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.
“Hazardous” air quality alerts have been issued across much of the region, leading to the cancellation of many outdoor events.
As of Friday, air quality in Detroit was worst in the world, Swiss air quality tracker IQAir said, followed by the Midwestern city of Chicago, Washington DC, and New York in seventh place.
In the open letter addressed to Canadian officials, US lawmakers John James, John Moolenaar, Jack Bergman and Lisa McClain said their “patience has run out”.
“We are done accepting apologies in place of action,” they said, warning the US could explore direct involvement in cross-border wildfire protection and firefighting if Canada failed to act.
“We were told last year that this would be treated with urgency. It was not,” they claimed, adding that instead “American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year”.
They said that issues such as “chronic under-investment in forest thinning, fuel reduction, and prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement against arson”, had not been addressed “adequately enough”.
“Weather doesn’t care about international borders,” says Dr Patrick James from the University of Toronto.
Once smoke reaches the atmosphere, it travels wherever the winds take it – and smoke from major US wildfires has also affected Canada in recent years.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
이번 글은 미국의 도널드 트럼프 대통령이 캐나다 산불로 인한 연기가 북부 미국 도시를 덮치자 캐나다에 관세를 부과하겠다고 위협한 사건에 대해 다루고 있습니다. 캐나다의 산불이 통제되지 않고 번지면서 미국 북부 지역의 공기 질이 심각하게 악화되었습니다. 트럼프 대통령은 캐나다 정부가 숲 관리를 소홀히 했다고 비난하며 조치를 취하지 않으면 관세를 매길 것이라고 경고했습니다. 반면 캐나다 측은 기후 변화 대응은 양국의 책임이라고 강조했습니다. 이 사건은 국경을 초월하는 환경 문제의 심각성을 보여줍니다.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- Tariff – 관세 – The US threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada.
- Negligence – 부주의, 소홀 – Trump accused Canada of willful negligence.
- Hazardous – 위험한 – Hazardous air quality alerts have been issued.
- Atmosphere – 대기권, 대기 – Once smoke reaches the atmosphere, it travels wherever the winds take it.
- Climate change – 기후 변화 – It was the responsibility of both countries to fight climate change.
- Enforcement – 집행, 시행 – Inadequate enforcement against arson.
- Invaded – 침략되다 (여기서는 비유적) – The United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy air.
- Cross-border – 국경을 넘는 – Direct involvement in cross-border wildfire protection.
- Urgency – 긴박함, 시급함 – This would be treated with urgency.
- Prescribed burns – 계획된 소각 – Issues such as chronic under-investment in prescribed burns.
🔗 원문 링크
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyq93j34lgo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss