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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by dghughes on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:46PM (#11834059)
No we're not in trouble.

Massive mining industry including potash, precious ore and diamonds.

Massive hydroelectric power system (Northeastern US guess where much of your power comes from).

Massive agriculture industry

Massive seafood industry

Massive forest industry

Add to that movies, music, manufacturing, cars, steel mills, shipbuilding ($26B ship contract near me), munitions and software industry. We used to have some pretty good hardware too remember Matrox and ATI video cards?

Oil and gas aren't the only things we produce but even so there is also a lot of it on the east coast.

Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by snowwindwaves on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:36AM (#11835088)
I think fishing and forestry are both shadows of what they once were