Obviously there are the climate change denialists who think “global elites” have paid actors setting forest fires around the globe, but there are also reputable people saying this. When I hear arson, I hear a person starting a fire with malicious intent. Are there really massive numbers of malicious firestarters around the globe, or does arson also cover things like recklessness/carelessness, like if I burn trash in my backyard or start a campfire on the woods and it gets out of control?
Yeah this is what I mean, like that to me is not the first thing I think of when I hear “arson.” Feel like the throwing around of the word arson for things like this makes people less inclined to look into things to fall back on blaming these things on some unspecified other and buying into right-wing climate change denial conspiracies