KurtVonnegut

@KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2024⁩

Replying to an earlier post

Ha wow. I searches 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.

telegraph.co.uk/…/rewilding-making-wildfires-wors…

Replying to @⁨KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz⁩

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”.

posted in Asklemmy

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

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!