EarthFirst Eco-Activists descend on tinder-dry moorland in August in a move of staggering hypocrisy driving outrage from local community.

For years, activist groups have lectured the moorland communities about fire. Controlled burning, they claim, is vandalism. The uplands, they tell anyone who will listen, must be protected from those who actually live and work on them. This week, many of those same activists pitched tents on a moor in the Peak District, in August, during one of the driest summers on record, with wildfires already…