Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
This should be reported for misinformation. It’s a blatantly false image.
The farmers’ association, Coldiretti, said Sicily was facing an “unprecedented catastrophe and incalculable environmental damage”.
The minister for civil protection, Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook: “This is one of the hardest days in Italy’s history for 10 years. Climate change has hit our nation and demands that we all change our ways. There are no excuses.”
I was informed by conservative relatives that climate change was a Chinese hoax, which fair, that’s a pretty funny joke. But burning down Sicily seems like taking things a bit too far.
Yup. This has to be the most elaborate hoax since the moon landing.
Clearly it is a Sicilian hoax…
“Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”
oh god, the false flag conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day.
Absurd … This is ludicrous and looks like a warring area on an RPG map. It’s 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 but unbelievable.
I was thinking this has to be a cgi image or exaggerated to see all the fires. That’s not a “struggling” island, its a total loss.
Its not real. This isn’t a satellite image of the wildfires. Theres an artist’s initials at the top of this “satellite image” (it is a satellite image, but the fires and smoke are drawn on).
Shame on OP for spreading disinformation.
To be fair, everyone can and will be tricked at some point by fake pictures, the post may have been a genuine attempt to inform.
But it definitely needs to be edited in the title and description once it’s clear that it’s misleading.
For people looking for a more realistic take…the last 48 hours are clear so this is 72 hours back… Not sure if that’s a data issue or the fires have gone out now.
We reap what we sow.
Not saying shit’s not fucked up over there right now, but is this an artist rendering? Its got what looks like artist initials at the top and I can’t find this image anywhere else.
More fuel for the “climate change is a hoax” fire
Yeah, looks like a nighttime image of the island with some smoke added to it.
It
almostdefinitely is. This happened with the last big Australian fires too. Here’s a an actual satellite photo of the Australian fires with overlaid red dots from NASA data for comparison.Note the complete lack of smoke or cloud obscuring anything in the OP image.
Edited to add: NASA photo + overlaid data from Sicily’s 2017 fires. Fewer fires, visible wind smoke trails.
While there are indeed a great many forest fires happening around the world, and no shortage of them across Sicily, this is an artists rendering and not an actual satellite photo. The actual fires are FAR more localized, and this kind of hyper sensationalized reporting just does a disservice to the actual severity of the situation. It’s a big enough problem even without the sensationalism.
The fruits of capitalism.
We won’t stop either, the greed disease is like a drug. The few who have wealth and demand more without end, and the many who prefer to tell themselves it’ll be them one day with hard work so why destroy their future lavish lifestyle by breaking the wheel? Addicted to the gluttonous life, or addicted to the gluttonous delusion.
And the world burned…
I don’t think the heatwave had much to do with capitalism
Can someone explain why capitalism is the cause of these fires instead of just down voting the shit out of us for asking a question?
Because these fires are the result of climate change.
Climate change itself is driven by human emissions, which the VAST majority of are driven by the pursuit of profit by corporations, which is entirely a capitalist concept. Corporations could invest money into eliminating emissions, but that would reduce profit, so corporations don’t do it unless they can leverage it as a selling point to increase revenue.
This is absurd nonsense. Emissions come from people needing shit like electricity.
Even communists like electricity.
And there are a plethora of ways to generate electricity cleanly. Nuclear, wind, solar, hydro. You know who has lobbied against these heavily? The oil and gas and coal industries, because it would hurt their profits if we used clean energy. Coal and natural gas account for 98% of the emissions from electricity generation in the US.
You know another major contributor to emissions? Transportation. Having efficient mass public transportation would eliminate a huge amount of emissions, and we would have more walkable cities with a healthier population. You know who has lobbied against that for decades? The auto industry because it would hurt profits if people didn’t need to buy a car to get anywhere.
Chevron, BP, Exxon, and Shell make up 10% of carbon emissions just between those four companies. All lobby heavily against green energy and public transportation because it would hurt profits.
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And they have known about oil and gas being major contributors to climate change and the effects of climate change for nearly 100 years. And have lobbied against things that could have eliminated our need for oil and gas by now because it would hurt profits.
How do you not get this. They have known about climate change for decades and actively work to keep harming the climate because of profit.
I swear we need to retire the term ‘Capitalism’ entirely because it seems like it’s impossible to discuss its flaws without someone just assuming it’s a statement in favour of resurrecting Stalin. This has nothing to do with communists.
Electricity can be produced in many different ways - it’s just that some are more profitable than others.
Capitalism also creates an entire web of incentive structures that make it hard to develop more sustainable alternatives - e.g car industry creating ‘lock-in’, as described in this paper. I’m sure a similar paper could be written about some Soviet bloc state 60 years ago, but that’s irrelevant. This is a problem of Capitalism and the Soviet bloc doesn’t exist anymore. Just cause ‘Stalin bad’ doesn’t mean ‘Capitalism can do no harm ever’.
We clearly need a new definition of you think capitalism creates barriers to innovation lol
Did you know that to ascribe an externality to a specific cause you need to show that only that specific cause has that externality?
Market capture exists everywhere, in every economic system.
Ah the innovation argument, so original. “Capitalism creates innovation”. Everyone says it all the time so it must be true right? Well it isn’t. Data doesn’t support this argument.
Pretty much every major innovation of the past century has come from publicly funded and/or not-for-profit research and development. Capitalists only step in once the difficult part is done and the ‘innovation’ can be repackaged into something profitable in the short term.
See the following: https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/7/3/459/1693191
https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/Entrepreneurial_State_-_web.pdf
Capitalism definitely creates barriers to certain types of innovation. Mainly innovation that isn’t profitable - see ‘planned obsolesence’. It also creates barriers to profitable innovation sometimes; just look up ‘patent trolls’.
But I was never even talking about innovation. You just jumped to it because that is the classic buzzword talking point that is constantly repeated everywhere. ‘Develop better alternatives’ doesn’t have to be ‘innovation’. We have the technology already, we’ve had it for decades. Trains and cycle lanes = better alternatives to cars. Nuclear energy = better alternative to fossil fuels.
Market capture exists everywhere, in every economic system.
Sure, this might be the case for every existing economic system. I believe we need to develop something new. Just like modern Capitalism was inconceivable to someone living in the Feudal era, a new system might be inconceivable for us right now. But it is imperative we try.
Because these fires are the result of climate change.
Climate change itself is driven by human emissions, which the VAST majority of are driven by the pursuit of profit by corporations, which is entirely a capitalist concept. Corporations could invest money into eliminating emissions, but that would reduce profit, so corporations don’t do it unless they can leverage it as a selling point to increase revenue.
You’re getting downvoted because it’s hard to believe there are any folk out there who are arguing in good faith that climate change is not at least partially (if not majorly) impacted by man-made causes. Capitalism being a driving factor would go hand in hand with climate change due to its proponents of “fuck you I got mine” and get rich at any cost. Capitalism is not for the people, it is for the capitalist, and the capitalists have shown that they are willing to burn the world down for short term gains. See the picture above.
If you can tell me you believe that fossil-fuel executives, having looked at this picture, think “oh man we really should’ve been listening to scientists for the past half century”, then I can show you a liar.
Because these fires are the result of climate change.
Climate change itself is driven by human emissions, which the VAST majority of are driven by the pursuit of profit by corporations, which is entirely a capitalist concept. Corporations could invest money into eliminating emissions, but that would reduce profit, so corporations don’t do it unless they can leverage it as a selling point to increase revenue.
Because these fires are the result of climate change.
Climate change itself is driven by human emissions, which the VAST majority of are driven by the pursuit of profit by corporations, which is entirely a capitalist concept. Corporations could invest money into eliminating emissions, but that would reduce profit, so corporations don’t do it unless they can leverage it as a selling point to increase revenue.
the industrial revolution was driven by capitalism
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The goal of pure capitalism is to extract as much wealth for yourself and shareholders as you possibly can, as fast as you possibly can. The consequences of that are to be the most successful, you’re pushed into making selfish decisions, ones that benefit you to the detriment of others. What we have in the world now is that taken to the extreme. Oil companies don’t give a fuck if global warming is killing the planet, they’re making money now. Industrial farms don’t care if the rain forests die, they need that land to sell crops. Fishing operations don’t care if entire species are going extinct, they need to catch more to make more. Companies don’t worry about long term problems because they don’t show up on a quarterly balance sheet, and they need to show growth for their investors or they’ll go under.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/world/heat-wave-climate-change-us-china-europe-intl/index.html
Capitalism demands and requires constant growth/metastasis instead of equilibrum. Consume, consume, consume, leads to unnecessary industry to make unnecessary things to increase profits for private individuals who never stop demanding more year over year. They use their propaganda machines, all major media which they own, to impress on everyone that not consuming needlessly makes you a loser and a bad person who is missing out and uncool, to further drive consumption for profit. Which has led us inexorably here.
Lol
Fun fact: socialists consume coal and oil too
That doesn’t really apply when the topic is “capitalists uniquely cause(d) climate change,” which is hilariously and obviously false because socialists also have a need for shelter and food.
That meme would work if I were saying something like “socialists also buy iphones lol” but my point is very clearly broader than that
It’s literally the reverse. You can avoid phones often to a larger degree than cars in parts of society. So, it is worse, period.
That is literally my point lol
This is awesome
You’ve ACTUALLY missed their point with the comic (who the fuck is calling a comic a meme?) tho. The fact is that capitalist society, especially in the US, has pushed even the socialist calling for change to live in the system, even though they’d rather not. The consumption of coal and oil are forced choices because someone isn’t just going to fuckin go without shelter or the ability to get to work. Your “SoCiaLisTs dO It tOo tHo!!#'$^=!” statement is crap because consumption of those products isn’t a choice anymore.
Even socialist states that fail on the climate front are because they’re competing on a global scale with capitalist cultures that just completely ignored that for a century.
For warmth and necessary industry and energy, not for crap the capitalists propagandize we need or need to be jealous of. You need a home and commons(transportation of some kind for people and utilities) and food, you dont need beanie babies, pop figues, and for everyone to have their own polluting car instead of having societal investment in quality public transit almost eveyone uses. Socialists also don’t encourage replacing everything every 6 months and making things to break/planned obsolescence to encourage needless consumption literally for the sake of consumption.
The capitalist lifestyle is unsustainable because it relies on infinite growth on a finite world we are burning to sustain.
Lol it’s adorable that you think people liking having shit is due to capitalism.
I’m very curious to hear what you think capitalism means.
Consumer mindset and thinking of people first and foremost is brought to you by capitalism.
We’re not consumers, we’re people. Social animals that enjoy living in groups. Owning shit isn’t something that makes us inherently happy. Just look at how other apes live. Just think about the things that make you happy.
Endless consumption is a blight. It’s killing our habitat. It’s killing us.
lol there’s a cute little wildfire going on in san francisco
If you zoom out you can see that a lot of southern Italy and Northern Africa is burning too
Wow… I feel that forest fire pain coming from Sicily, what the hell is happening to the middle of Africa?!
Guide on what it means here: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SSd7KnWN9CM
Note the red pixels are just a representation, doesn’t mean the whole red area is on fire. See 1:08 to 2:10 for explanation.
WTH is happening to Africa?
probably false positives. there’s also fires detected in industrial areas in germany for example, pretty much exactly where the exhaust towers are
“Sir, the system shows the entirety of the largest continent on Earth is on fire?”
“Oh, yeah, it does that.”
Just seems less than ideal.
I think it’s on fire.
Slash and burn farming is a common land clearing technique there ahead of the rainy season. It’s the right time of year, but I dont know if that’s what it is for sure. The current major conflict in the DRC is on the Eastern side, so I don’t think it’s that.
Fake picture is fake.
This is inaccurate.
If these posts are trending then here it is no different than reddit if not worse.
It’s gotten pretty bad lately and by this point I do feel like I see more misinformation on here than on Reddit. Lemmy has successfully managed to become more like Reddit than Reddit itself.
It’s kinda sad, there were a few days in which it really felt like this space would be different, but right now, I either go on /sub and barely see any content because most of the communities I want to follow are fairly inactive, or I go on /all and it’s mostly americans calling eachother Nazis over the slightest political disagreement, middle-class doomers going on about how their lives are horrible even though they’re better off than most of the world and every “serious” community, whether it’s news or politics or etc. is filled to the brim with misinformation (and more doomers).
People are already circlejerking below about capitalism over this fake pic, nice, cheers.
the climate change is going slowly then all at once, now we are at the all at once phase
Yeesh, this is horrible. Looks like something you’d see in a movie
Today my house almost burned down, and yes I felt like I was in a movie while preparing the bags to evacuate just in case. Fortunately it didn’t come to that…
