Austerity
Politico – Greece’s aging power grid blamed for catastrophic wildfires
This is the consequences of the EU destroying a country’s public infrastructure through austerity. Read the article HERE.
Wildfires
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben – Europe’s extreme summer shows the climate can’t be hushed
Wildfires have brought the issue of climate action back into the public debate, just as politicians had thought they were safe to dump it for good. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury […]
Climate Crisis
Chris Bambery – Spain is struggling to cope with climate breakdown
Whether it is wildfires, floods or droughts, Spain’s climate has become increasingly extreme and the southern European country is moving from one ecological crisis to the next. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and […]
Climate Crisis
Al Jazeera – France and Spain brace for heatwave that could worsen raging wildfires
We are well beyond the point of predicting how climate crises will compound and multiply one another: it is happening in Europe now. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Reuters – Spain’s largest wildfire of the year burns for a fifth day as new heatwave looms
Summers in Spain now see just about the whole country go up in flames, as fires rip through dry and unmanaged rural land like a knife through hot butter. Read the article HERE.
Austerity
José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
Climate Crisis
José Manuel Cabrero, César Martín-Gómez, Rayder W.L. Laura – The ravaging of Spain’s rural economy has created the conditions for wildfire destruction
Wildfires must be stopped before they happen, and the best way to do that is to end the abandonment of Spain’s rural areas to ensure forests are kept ‘clean’. José Manuel Cabrero is a professor […]