People are probably tired of me saying this - but capitalism is to blame for the current wildfires, on multiple levels:
- Native woodlands are cut down, flammable non-natives like Eucalyptus are planted - high in oil and a quick cash crop for land owners 🤑
- Climate change strongly tied to capitalist (human) activities ✈️
- People leave the countryside and migrate to cities to find work - leaving vast wild land vulnerable (no-one to raise the alarm, no human fire-prevention in place) 👷
Replying to @matttutt@mastodon.social
@matttutt I'll never stop talking about capitalism's consequences. Naomi Klein shows in The Shock Doctrine how the ruling class uses crises, wars, disasters, collapses to push policies that wouldn't pass otherwise. Disaster capitalism.
Fires are natural, but the scale is not. Monocrops for profit. Fossil fuels for profit. Hollowed out communities. The system turns a natural cycle into a catastrophe.
We keep fighting, naming the system, and building what comes next. Solidarity ✊❤️