Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change
Christy LefteriMany see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it
During the summer of 2021, I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there.
Shouldn’t we also solicit the view of Christy Righteri – you know, for balance.
“to learn more about the wildfires”
translated: “I went on holiday by aeroplane, something you plebs won’t be allowed.”
The stench of hypocrisy is strong on this one. And all those trees cut down to print her silly opinions.
“To move forward, we must understand our part in it. During the summer of 2021, I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there.”
To be a proper G article, shouldn’t that be followed by “mea culpa” and ritual self flagellation?
I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there, learned nothing, then came home to spout this nonsense.
Climate breakdown is a new one for me. So not only have we moved from warming to heating to boiling, we are also suffering climate breakdown. Does this mean snow in summer etc, or just no weather at all?
Good to see the Greeks ignored the silly bitch.
Anyway, didn’t the Greeks state that the vast majority of the fires were caused by deliberate arson? Toss-all to with “the climate crisis”
@MC
“Climate breakdown is a new one for me.”
Surely you must have heard it sobbing: “I just can’t go on like this!”
“ Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis.”
Maybe because they know it is not about climate and there is no ‘crisis’?
“…People don’t blame the climate crisis.
That’s because there is no climate crisis and the fires are the result of poor forest management and possibly arson.
“That must change.”
Yes, even though I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, I demand that people agree with me.
And what happens if they don’t change? Send in a plague of locusts? Or Caroline Lucas?
“state that the vast majority of the fires were caused by deliberate arson?”: this argument is usually a silly distraction or even just a dishonest excuse. The prime question is why there was so much fuel. Arson or not, fuel will eventually be subjected to an ignition source whether that be a lightning strike, a discarded bottle, or a flicked fag-end.
It’s the fuel! It’s always the fuel. Don’t let dangerous amounts of fuel accumulate.
“Anyway, didn’t the Greeks state that the vast majority of the fires were caused by deliberate arson? ”
I’ve heard that said about so many wildfires there must be teams of trained arsonists working overtime. It’s the standard excuse for anyone doing firerisk management when they don’t manage firerisks.
As dearieme points out, you create a fire, it will burn. The only question’s when. Not the reason.
So we can’t be tourists but she can be a whoreist?
I feel like lighting those flying burning latern things to commemorate the anniversary of a fire might cause some knock on problems…
Climate change → global warming → climate problem → global heating → climate crisis → climate emergency → global boiling
I think Tom is on climate problem, with how much of a problem partly caused by the wrong reactions to it, and the man is on a climate change denier blacklist for crying out loud.
But I don’t see how the warning rhetoric can escalate further without adding fascist or arsonist perhaps. Maybe something with the word planetary meat or nazi at which point they’re just being silly.
“Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change” That means blame “climate change” even if it is not the cause. Tackle the wrong cause and the solution will not work.
I lived in the South of France and the Canadair water bombers flew over most days, in threes even fives: they have not done that recently. Why? Better forest management is my guess.
How about: climate change → global warming → climate problem → global heating → climate crisis → climate emergency → global boiling → climate breakdown → climate crash → climate apocalypse → *mindless screaming and soiled pants*
Have we reached climate armageddon yet?
She would have cycled to Greece, but she lives in a flat and has nowhere to store a bicycle.
Odd, I live in a flat and I store my bicycle on the landing/in the hall.
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I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there, learned they were arson. Then came home to spout these global boiliing lies
Meanwhile, over at ASI, Mr TW wants to tax aircraft fuel more to stop global boiliing [cough, fatuous externalities}
Come on folks, we all know whose name crops up as the ultimate is reached. Where is Mr Hilter, the well known Graun foe…