It really is an amazing coincidence that all of those fires would start at more or less the same time. Perhaps if there had been an epic lightning storm blanketing the area, which there wasn’t. Or maybe a particularly large shower of meteors, although a cosmic impactor swarm large enough to set fire to the country would presumably have been seen by a lot of people, and there are only 2 reports for 2023 from the whole of Canada, with the most recent being out in Alberta.
The only other way I can imagine that you’d have that many fires sta
rting with such perfect synchronization is via coordinated human activity. If you go on social media, the other narrative vying for supremacy with the climate crisis shrieking is that this is mostly deliberate arson. Yes, that’s a crazy conspiracy theory. It’s one that at least some police share, however, with local news in British Colombia, Alberta and Nova Scotia reporting arrests or active investigations of suspicious activity. The Alberta government has assigned just under half of the wildfires to human activity, with the rest under investigation.
... three broad categories of perpetrators: a foreign state actor; the Canadian government itself; or non-state actors.
A foreign state might be motivated by the intention to cause economic damage, but I find this somewhat unlikely. It doesn’t really seem like Russia’s or China’s style. Damaging Canada’s softwood lumber trade isn’t likely to result in any particular strategic advantage for them.
An obvious candidate for non-state actor would be an eco-terrorist group. Extinction Rebellion types, for example, might easily have concluded that Canada and other Western governments are not acting fast enough to shut down human activity and break the planet’s fever. So why not give people a good scare? Set a bunch of fires and blame it on Huitzilocarbon. It’s the sort of little white lie that zealots of their type can easily excuse to themselves.
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Wildfires as a weapon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIqqvNnYYM
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