Conspiracy theory circulating that environmental activists deliberately started some of the fires in Canada. This year, Canada experienced the largest bushfires compared to the same period in previous years.
More than 3 million hectares burned and tens of thousands of people evacuated. One misconception is that the Canadian government set the fires to push climate change policies or to force civilians to flee to cities where it is easier to impose "climate-related lockdowns" The theory of environmental terrorism may have had a foundation in truth at first, but "it is overstated how important or meaningful it is", a professor says.