When baseball games are canceled in New York, the situation is serious: the smoke from the forest fires in Canada envelops the entire city, and the air quality is worse than it has been since measurements began.
This is what the apocalypse could look like. Since Tuesday, New York City has been shrouded in smoke blown down by winds from the wildfires in Canada. That was unusual enough. On Wednesday afternoon, however, the city began to turn yellow, an absolutely unhealthy yellow, and in this unreal light the streets, especially in Manhattan, seemed like intermediate worlds where the living and the dead could talk to each other. You didn’t have to be tender-hearted to find that unsettling.