The number of outdoor out-of-control fires set by arsonists worldwide could lead you to believe that there was a coordinated global eco-terrorist strategy to forcefully advance a false agenda about climate change. Man-made, sure, by arsonists.
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Eco-Arson has resulted in considerable damage in the US, Australia, the Amazon, Canada, Italy, Sicily, and now Greece, where at least 20 people have died.
Greece has strongly condemned the actions of “arsonist scum” after the police apprehended 79 individuals suspected of arson in connection with the devastating wildfires sweeping the country. Vassilis Kikilias, the Civil Protection Minister, revealed that there have been multiple attempts by arsonists to ignite fresh fires on Mount Parnitha, located northwest of Athens. The nation is currently grappling with hundreds of wildfires that have tragically claimed the lives of at least 20 people this week.
Eco-arsonists are becoming a bigger threat than lone-wolf military-aged Muslim mass shooters. It could also put a crimp in the eco-terrorist’s direct action to advance climate change policy. The optics in Greece are terrible.
Tragically, the bodies of 19 people believed to be migrants, including children, were found in the Evros region earlier this week. Additionally, a shepherd lost his life in the fires in the Boeotia region on Monday.
You killed migrant children. That’s a bad look, and it’s murder, not that eco-terrorist mind a bit of depopulation from direct action. But it should twist the panties of climate cultists yanking either the climate justice or climate refugee claim. You say they were displaced by man-made warming only to die as a result of man-made wildfires.
On the flip side, all that particulate matter released into the atmosphere as a result of the arson could have a counter-effect to the warming created by the water vapor ejected into the atmosphere by the Tonga undersea eruption. Arson as direct action could help lower the global average temperature, which has not been rising as advertised.
Despite the media-presented perception, the global average temperature, even using their rigged data stations, has been flat for the past seven or eight years.
The 2023 US burn average is also at historic lows despite the very wet winter priming the southwest and west for the massive wild grass fires that have inspired arsonists in other countries.
This suggests we need a new category and tracking for fires and burn average, much the way a death might be reclassified as murder after new evidence comes to light. These are not wildfires. They may run wild after being set by arsonists, but the cause is arson, not lighting or Westerners driving SUVs. It isn’t even an unintentional act like a campfire not properly extinguished or a lit cigarette flung from a passing motor vehicle.
Deliberate forest and grass fires need their own classification, and while eco-terrorism works for me, I think that needs to be institutionalized as a criminal designation and reported accordingly alongside or as a factor of charts like total burn acreage.
But I’m not holding my breath.
