JuneSim63By accident, I just heard an item on BBC Radio 4's Today programme covering the Athens wildfires. Not a mention of global heating or the climate emergency. "Of course, Greece is used to wildfires," says the reporter, "they have them every year."
sotiry@junesim63 Indeed. Was a terrible Megafire. Smoke reached >300km south of Athens. Most, if not all, houses impacted or burnt were in what some decades ago was a forest, step by step pseudo-made urban area. With >4mio people (40% of entire country) in this area where main concern is how to build a "riviera", nature is doomed.
James Fairbairn@junesim63 I’m really worried that we “can’t have a climate emergency” because of what else would have to be true if we did.
Right now we still apparently have to assume that technology and policy and markets will get us there in the end, by which I mean, before it’s too late. (Too late for whom, btw?) The lack of emergency means, for us people, “remain calm and continue about your day”.
What's a fun name?@junesim63 what happened in Athens has - almost - nothing to do with climate change etc. You can read EU's Wildfire Peer Review for Greece here: https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/system/files/2024-06/EL%20Peer%20Review_final%20report_0.pdf
A review Greek government asked, received and completely ignored, as they have been doing for so many years. Attica - the region Athens belongs to - has lost over 37% of its forest in 8 years.
Meanwhile, we see seaside investments in hotels that Greeks cannot afford and purchases of fighter jets instead of, Canadairs e.g.
OpticalNail 🇵🇸@hellenicsun @junesim63 This is definitely the main cause, but the issue is amplified by more arid and hot summers. Urban development without any thinking, as usual.
AndrewOne wonders how it will be reported when these wildfires do inevitably claim a large town or city. Even then, I suspect, the elephant in the room that is the climate crisis will continue to be deliberately ignored by the mainstream media
WikiParty@junesim63 Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!
Richard Michael Blaber@junesim63 @GeraldKutney It was the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation - now it's the British Climate Change Denial Corporation. That wouldn't have anything to do with all those Tories in the BBC management from the Chairman & Director-General down, would it?