Their Motives Were Pure

Fires started by Peruvian farmers to clear the land for crops have expanded into a forest fire uncomfortably close to Machu Picchu, the fifteenth-century Inca ruins likely known as Huayna Picchu before the forces of civilisation arrived to correct the natives. Appropriately enough for a site abandoned by its builders in the face of pious European genocide, the fire now covers an area half the size of Vatican City. Doubtless the farmers can consider themselves fortunate that their reasons for endangering the monument were purely economical and uncontaminated by the taint of woke ideology.