Mediterranean wildfires are no accident | Environment

From Turkiye to Greece, from France to Spain, this summer’s Mediterranean wildfires make one thing clear: Something has changed. These are no longer occasional dry spells or extreme seasons. The so-called sixth-generation fires are fuelled by a climatic and social logic deeply embedded in the machinery of global disaster capitalism.

The scale is staggering. By August 26, more than one million hectares (3,860sq miles) had burned across the European Union in 2025 – four times the…