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submitted 1 year ago by floppy@rabbitea.rs to c/world@lemmy.world

It is a summer of extremes. Burning temperatures followed by raging fires. Wild storms and torrential rain. And a run of broken climate records.

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[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Megafires has always been there in that part of Europe, simply no one cared. Now they are spreading further north...

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Link is broken. What I am trying to say is that megafires are pretty much the norm in south of spain, Sicily, Sardinia, greece. They are endemic there. Rhese regions have always had to strictly control on the territory because of such fire. What is happening there is that ongoing economical crisis, that is getting worse, there is no money for such a strict territorial control. But those places were already a bbqs ready to light. Now governments are poorer to prevent and interviene properly.

The main problem of climate changes is that it is extending north the region where these fires happen. Up to places previously unheard such as switzerland! That is the real proof that something bad is going on.

In the past, in south of Italy only Sardinia Sicily and Calabria were BBQs in summer. Now even places northern than that have become at high risk.

Source: I grew up there, my family is from there, I still visit often and keep reading news

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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