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• Existing diseases have been exacerbated by service interruptions, and people have lost their homes and livelihoods.
• It is a disaster mainly caused by our decisions and lack of preparation to deal with a more extreme climate hazard.
• As an academic disaster researcher from Chile, I think there are lessons we can learn from these fires.

Fire-prone conditions

• Meteorological conditions have made Chile very prone to fires this summer, especially in this long-and-thin country’s central region, where it is warm enough for fires yet wet enough for there to be vegetation to burn.
• Conditions were dry on top of a longer-term mega-drought, and relative humidity was low.
• It is very likely that these conditions have been influenced by El Niño, on top of human-induced climate change.

Formula for a (not natural) perfect disaster

• This is exactly what happened in Chile: a deadly combination of an extreme climate hazard and inadequate social preparation.
• Several antennas were affected by the fires and not properly working, so many people did not receive the message on time.
• This led to traffic jams and bottlenecks, some of which became engulfed in the middle of the fires.

Climate-related hazards shouldn’t turn disastrous

• However, the human health risks this poses can be reduced by adequate preparedness and response plans.
• Villa Botania, near the city of Quilpué in central Chile, emerged from these fires as an interesting example to learn from.
• This can save lives, as shown by the success since the 1970s of anti-seismic building regulations in this earthquake-prone country.

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• Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London.
• This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.
• In March 1914, a suffragette named Mary Richardson entered the National Gallery with a butcher’s knife secreted in her sleeve.
• It’s not the first time Just Stop Oil has taken a tactic from the suffragette playbook.

Distancing themselves

• On a march in London, Just Stop Oil protesters questioned “would the suffragettes have marched on the pavement?” when asked to move.
• Extinction Rebellion activists, outside of a court where seven women were held for causing damage to Barclays Headquarters, wore suffragette outfits.
• However, both Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have made distinctions between their actions and the suffragettes’.
• Nevertheless, Just Stop Oil’s use of confetti and jigsaws pales in comparison to the suffragettes’ use of firelighters and paraffin.

Justification through history

• Pankhurst contrasted the actions of other contemporary figures throughout her speeches and her autobiography.
• Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil has followed in her footsteps, ironically adopting a suffragette tactic while distancing itself from the movement.
• Pankhurst contrasted how previous violent movements conducted by men had been rewarded in comparison to the suffragettes who were arrested.

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