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Eternal Spring

Climate change is obvious to anyone over twenty five years of age; things have certainly changed since I was a kid. It’s December and the temperature this evening in Athens is 20°C (mornings and afternoons are way worse. Under normal circumstances 15°C would have been considered a very mild evening). At the same time, northern […]

Και είναι ακόμη Ιούνιος..

Όπως είπε φέτος υπάρχουν 3.500 πυροσβέστες λιγότεροι ενώ οι μόνιμοι δεν έχουν μέσα ατομικής προστασίας.
3,500 λιγότεροι πυροσβέστες [από πέρυσι;], μόλις δυο χρόνια μετά τις καταστροφικές πυρκαγιές σε Πάρνηθα, Εύβοια και Πελοππόνησο και με τη περίοδο των πυρκαγιών να έχει ήδη ξεκινήσει για τα καλά. Και όλα αυτά σε μια χώρα 11 εκατομμυρίων που τουλάχιστον καταφέρνει επιτυχώς να επαναπροσδιορίσει τον όρο 'ανικανότητα' και 'απάθεια', με περισσότερους δημόσιους υπαλλήλους από τη Γερμανία των 82 εκατομμυρίων και τη Βρετανία των 65 εκατομμυρίων.

Breathtaking.

Just back from a trip to Kythira, my usual destination whenever I get the chance to get some time off. Here’s a picture I took that I find more or less representative of the state of nature on the island during Spring — it’s every bit as beautiful as this HDR photo alludes. Kythira was […]

Our generation will never see fir forests in these areas again.

And there is a chance our generation will never see much of any sort of forest in that area either. It's been a month since the greatest environmental catastrophe Hellas has ever witnessed and the hellenic media as well as people --- at least most of them --- have seemingly moved on. Given the country's past record on protecting its forests as well as their regrowth in burnt areas I wouldn't be surprised if only 5-10% of the areas affected by last August's fires were reforested by 2030. Yet, according to this BBC report, not everyone has moved on with their petty lives. Like everyone else, WWF is expressing its concerns regarding reforestation and the ecosystem in the area. Unlike most, it seems to be prepared to fund legal campaigns against this.
But the WWF insists that humans and nature can co-exist as long as there is sensible and sensitive sustainable development.
Sensible, sensitive and sustainable development could possibly be a reality, had our memory and interest been somewhat more substantial.

Φάτε τους κλώνους!

Χωρίς ειδική σήμανση και με τις ευλογίες της FDA, το κρέας κλώνων θα βρίσκεται στα κρεοπωλεία κοντά σας...αν βρίσκεστε στις ΗΠΑ. Μια ακόμη αποτυχία της FDA να κάνει τη δουλειά ενώ προωθεί τα συμφέροντα των αμερικάνικων επιχειρήσεων ή δείγμα των καιρών μας;