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!
France. They blame ecologists and scientific for not having been “convincing enough” about climate crisis.
A bit like Hitler blaming the allies for failing to avoid the Holocaust.
I had a lady at a coffee shop tell me about how the California fires are created by nuclear powered space lasers the US sold to China that they’re now using for climate terrorism against the US.
She also told me that her grandma had Obama’s birth certificate.
People are… interesting.
They’re back to only talking about migrants.
Shout out to the farmers protesting for cheaper diesel when we had a green gov 2-3 years ago and now crying for subsidies because the dryness is killing their crops. Some real smart salt of the earth
For example: Vlaams Belang (far-right in Belgium) is all indignant about how the country supposedly spent too much on climate mitigation (something they have always fought) and not enough on climate adaptation.
See for example this piece on their website about the forest fires, titled: “forget about the climate church, start investing in climate adaptation”.
Over here in germany i also had some news channel or radio or something say something regarding this.
It was said that the statement - that we did too less in adaption and should have saved ressources for that by investing less in climate mitigation - is utter bullshit and we should have invested more in both and that this new discussion is stupid.
Wanted to point that out since it seems like our right wing idiots have the same talking points as yours.
Almost feels like this entire discussion is another one of those big right wing investor/media mogul type of discussion thats being forced onto society by right wing media shills.
What is “climate church”?
They deliberately misunderstand “human caused” to mean arson. Then try to whip up anger against the “arsonists”.
Human caused is literally anything other than lighting strikes.
