I understand why someone may intentionally or accidentally start ONE wildfire but always been baffled anyone could do it a second time realizing the effects. It's a weird phenomenon.
Society only works when people generally play by the same rules, ie. "The Social Contract". When people stop adhering to the contract, chaos happens and society rots or crumbles.
There's a plethora of recent examples of this - including mass riots, mass looting and mass shoplifting. Society doesn't have an automatic and efficient way to deal with people who collectively decided societal rules don't apply to them.
For some people, chaos is a means to an end. Tear down the things you don't like in society by literally breaking them.
If we all stopped paying taxes and started smoking weed we would probably manage somehow. On the other hand if everyone becomes an arsonist we'd have real problems.
My first question would be: Can they find a link between this people and Gary Stephen Maynard? I assume that the answer will be not (or not evident) but, the `modus operandi` is very similar and both attacks fall in USA election years, so we see the same patterns repeating again (as expected). This has happened before.
My second question would be: provoked fires happen more often, less often or are equally distributed between blue and red states?
But a couple in a stable relationship? How does that conversation start? Did they meet at a climate denial convention for radicals?
I think it’s that couples can either average out a bit (destructive interference?) or ramp each other up to an insane degree (constructive interference).
Usually it’s a mix across attributes, so nothing too notable occurs. But obviously not in this case…
In Mossad together?
Having been around far left activist groups in my past, there are many who think that doing things like this on purpose is morally justified, because it keeps the conversation on climate change. The media incentivizes it by covering them as "climate-fueled wildfire" stories, every single time.
Wildfires in Canada were at a two-decade low in 2020, during the lockdowns. Think about that.
Likely because most wildfires are accidents, even with accelerationist provocateurs being profoundly stupid and causing the thing they're worried about to get you to worry about it. People radicalized enough to do that are wildly uncommon.
Never underestimate a radicalized idiot... they are capable of the inconceivable.
Without more data, just criminals. Activists would behave differently IMO.
Why would you automatically assume this? The world has had pyromaniacs long before it was fashionable to make radical climate activism one's identity.