How is the far-right responding to forest fires in your countries?

5 days ago by KurtVonnegut to c/asklemmy

I'm just curious how the far-right is framing these developments, and how it differs per country.

Are they mostly talking about the "pyromaniacs"?

Or about how governments failed to do organize the (supposedly normal) periodic low intensity fires to prevent the big ones?

Or are they simply not talking about it at all?

If you have any concrete links to local media, I would be very curious!

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GreyShuck 26 points 5 days ago

UK - local authorities are busy un-declaring climate emergency, nationally they are blaming the wildfires on re-wilding done by lefties and anyway, they say, it is no worse than the summer of '76.

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KurtVonnegut 7 points 5 days ago

Ha wow. I searched and I found this:

In Southern Europe they are realising that wildfires have been raging through areas that were once grazed but have since been abandoned by an ageing population no longer content to be peasant farmers.

Formerly it was an offence in many countries for landowners not to maintain fire breaks by spraying. Now, under pressure from Greens, the rules have been relaxed in many areas, and chickens are coming home to roost with their wings on fire.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

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schmorpel 4 points 4 days ago

The bit about the farmers is true. I live in one of these areas and our animals graze lands that were abandoned by the original owners who emigrated to the city or to abroad. And the build-up of organic mass on abandoned farms gives a lot of food to wildfires that might otherwise be mild. The government has its part in this though by encouraging the planting of 'match forests' of pine and eucalyptus.

The spraying bit, at least where I live, is complete bullshit. There's laws in place that one has to clean their land, and they are still in place. The cleaning mostly happens with fossil fueled brush cutters. Municipal governments however love using Roundup at the side of the roads, it's so nice and easy! Firebreaks by spraying is utter bullshit anyways - when you spray, the surface plants die off and leave plenty of organic matter to burn.

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ALiteralCabbage 1 point 3 days ago

Firebreaks by spraying is utter bullshit anyways - when you spray, the surface plants die off and leave plenty of organic matter to burn.

But how else can you blame the greens?!

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