In the debased species known as humanity, it perhaps is not surprising that the very wildfires consuming us have become fuel for yet more deranged people and their 'theories'. Here are two of my favourite examples of our ongoing slide into social, political and spiritual senescence:
The embers of one particular theory were fanned Thursday morning by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who was asked by podcast host Ryan Jespersen about how she reconciled her government’s resistance to emission reduction schemes with the reality that climate change is contributing to more damaging fires.
“I think you’re watching, as I am, the number of stories about arson,” she responded. “I’m very concerned that there are arsonists.”
The question of arson seems to have taken hold in certain corners of the internet among users who share stories of people charged with arson, and given oxygen not only by Smith, but by federal politician and one-time Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier, who tweeted earlier this week that he bet “a good portion” of the fires had been “started by green terrorists.”
Then there is this illustration of supreme idiocy: Nicholas is fighting fires in Alberta. The rumour is that the military that came to help isn’t even Canadian…it is the UN. Here, not to fight fires, but to round “them” up and put them…
…where? IDK 
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That's all I have the heart for today.
Well Lorne, I consider the the chief arsonist in Alberta is none other than Danielle Smith. It is not only that she cannot recognize climate change, she provides fodder for the loonies as in your clip. RG
ReplyDeleteIt must be especially disheartening to those who are actually trying to put out the fires, RG. It seems like a Sisyphean task when Smith and her ilk live in a world of fantasy, prevarication and provocation.
DeleteUN soldiers and now green terrorists with space lasers have been appearing from out of nowhere all over the place. Our guts are telling us that it can't be coincidence.
ReplyDeleteThere is definitely a pattern here, John, just not the one the lunatics posit.
DeleteThanks for the link, Anon. The wildfires are extensive and destructive, but so are the wanton displays of stupidity and politicking. We seem to live in an age where people make a virtue of their ignorance.
ReplyDeleteThanks, TB. You link is excellent and so pertinent.
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