The immense destruction caused by the wildfires in Varybobi, Evia and dozens of other areas of Greece is not solely due to the winds, high temperatures and climate change, as the ND government and the bourgeois media claim. The cause of this catastrophe is the reactionary policies and the criminal indifference of the Greek ruling class.
Source: Wildfires in Greece: the arsonist is the ruling class
The world is on fire like never before: “Wildfires Have Erupted Across the Globe Scorching Places That Rarely Burned Before” (CNN headlines July 22, 2021) but not only is fire raging, Biblical floods are destroying entire communities, e.g. 9,000 homes swept away in central China (BBC News) as towns were nearly decimated in Germany, “Europe’s More
Source: Drought Flood Fire - CounterPunch.org
Wildfire is coming for wine, weed, and Christmas, even if you live far away from the smoke and flames.
Source: 5 Things You Love That Will Be Screwed Over by Extreme Wildfires
It’s Beginning to Feel Like We’ve Finally Pushed the Planet Past its Final Tipping Point
Source: Is This the Beginning of Runaway Global Warming? | by umair haque | Jul, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co
With large fires still raging around the West, we can all feel empathy for those who lost their homes and even entire communities, as well as all of us suffering from the smoke. Still, there is a tremendous amount of smoke and mirrors about the blazes and their cause. The timber industry, Forest Service, and More
Source: Climate Change is Responsible for Devastating Wildfires - CounterPunch.org
Like a modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge escorted by the Ghost of Summers Yet to Come, California is catching a glimpse of its future summer weather. The view is a hellish one.Within a two-week span in August, California saw:
Source: Climate Change Is Worsening California’s Hellish Wildfires | Portside
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are going up in smoke. It’s eerily spine chilling. “Major fires have hit the Amazon and More
Source: The World on Fire - CounterPunch.org
Over 400,000 acres of wildfires burn in Arizona in a devastating opening to Southwest’s wildfire season. And neighboring California has approved more fracking in a 97% Latino town as oil tankers spew pollution.
Source: Climate Crisis: Historic Arizona Wildfires May Worsen COVID-19
I am in Sydney, having just spent 6 days in Brisbane to the north. The area around, and to the south of, Sydney has been engulfed by extensive wildfires which have been burning since August. This includes 20% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area. According to The New York Times, in the middle of More
Source: Australia’s Big Smoke - CounterPunch.org
