In November, we covered reports of wildfires being deliberately set. In the Amazon, arsonists sold pictures of their fire to an environmental group. We also touched on Australia’s new wildfire-arson problem. One that plays heavily into the recent spate of wildfires burning across that nation.
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The Spectator Australia reports of at least 200 cases of suspected arson-related to brushfires.
Australia has a firebug crisis. It will no doubt be up to future royal commissions and inquiries to calculate exactly what proportion of the current loss and destruction can be attributed to human action, but I suspect it will be a significant one. Mankind may be causing climate change, but man is most definitely making fires start.
This will have an annoying habit (for the left) of pushing the topic off climate chaos toward more pedestrian man-made origins. As proof, the Spectator reprints sections of local news reports from August through yesterday. All of them involve suspected arsonists or those arrested for arson.
They also provide data that suggests at least 40% of fires are deliberately set, and 47% percent are accidental. If you are curious about what that means in numbers, from 1997-2009, the researchers recorded 113,000 fires.
This generally matches previous data published a decade earlier that about half of all fires were suspected or deliberate arson, and 37 percent accidental. Combined, they reach the same conclusion: 87 per cent are man-made…
Australia’s biggest brush fire and wildfire problem is man-made. It’s arson – people who want to watch fire destroy things. Until it can get a handle on that (with some sort of big old Aussie Smokey Bear) you can’t make much of a case for any other cause or issue in more need of attention.
And no, there is no evidence that embracing socialism as a planet-saving solution would do more than burning a country’s economy to the ground leaving no real money or talent available to fight more fires.
