Climate change is the catastrophe to end all other catastrophes
This past summer, the primordial elements conspired to ravage Greece, the birthplace of Western civilization. The Mediterranean’s many islands were swept by water, air and especially fire, leaving a trail of wreckage. Helios, the sun god, whose statue in Rhodes was among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, brought scorching temperatures to that island, sparking hundreds of wildfires. In coastal Alexandroupolis, pine forests were “reduced to blackened, skeletal bark”, according to Reuters, while fires in the Dadia forest, home to a magnificent nature sanctuary, torched 281 square miles — an area roughly the size of New York City.
Across Greece, tens of thousands of people, locals and tourists both, had to be evacuated, creating harrowing scenes of fathers clutching children on their backs, mothers shouldering whatever necessities could be carried.… Seguir leyendo »
