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!
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.
Ha wow. I searched and I found this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/05/rewilding-making-wildfires-worse/
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.
Every insanely hot summer over the last 5 years has been compared to the summer of 76, almost like 5 years of extreme heat is different to 1.
In the entire 20th century, only 3 days had a temperature over 36C somewhere in UK.
We had 3 days over that in the same week this year.