Comments on: Greece: On Fire http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 28 May 2012 15:55:58 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sotiris Koukios http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-1201893 Sotiris Koukios Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:48:27 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/#comment-1201893 Please see also on my blog an article on the "Truth about fires in Greece". Also support a campaign on Pan European referendum. Please see also on my blog an article on the “Truth about fires in Greece”. Also support a campaign on Pan European referendum.

]]> By: rene http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-1193751 rene Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:51:53 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/#comment-1193751 It's difficult to find locations of the wildfires. I'm busy to find locations with latitude/longitude to develop a Google Map. See; http://www.mapstars.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135 It’s difficult to find locations of the wildfires. I’m busy to find locations with latitude/longitude to develop a Google Map. See;
http://www.mapstars.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135

]]> By: George http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-1193618 George Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:49:35 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/#comment-1193618 Someone wrote that New Orleans is the first big city of the world that we are losing because of climate change...Is Greece the first country? Here, in Athens, and in the Peloponnese, it certainly feels this way... Everyday, we get a lesson in abrupt climate change. Yesterday, it was snowing ashes, and a red sun (like the one in Munch's "The Scream") was glowing dimly. The winds are dying down: however, this does not make the life easier for the pilots, because there is so much land on fire that turbulence is created by the heat itself...Yesterday, there was even some moisture, but this filled the atmosphere with haze (just like in South-Eastern Asia, a few years ago), "blinding" the helicopters and the water-bombers...Please, help save the Greek forests. During the last 3 days, I am watching, absolutely flabbergasted, the evacuation of villages by air, and the setting-up of "environmental refugee" camps. I am wondering where the residents of 60 evacuated villages are.But it is the foolhardiness, the courage and the determination of those who refuse to evacuate that shocks me the most... Emergency services are overwhelmed, and there is curfew in certain areas. The institutions of a liberal, western democracy, which are supposed to create a sense of security and a framework for liberty, are straining under pressure....As always, the really scary thing is the aftermath - the ecological disaster, and the social dislocations that follow it... Someone wrote that New Orleans is the first big city of the world that we are losing because of climate change…Is Greece the first country? Here, in Athens, and in the Peloponnese, it certainly feels this way…

Everyday, we get a lesson in abrupt climate change. Yesterday, it was snowing ashes, and a red sun (like the one in Munch’s “The Scream”) was glowing dimly. The winds are dying down: however, this does not make the life easier for the pilots, because there is so much land on fire that turbulence is created by the heat itself…Yesterday, there was even some moisture, but this filled the atmosphere with haze (just like in South-Eastern Asia, a few years ago), “blinding” the helicopters and the water-bombers…Please, help save the Greek forests.

During the last 3 days, I am watching, absolutely flabbergasted, the evacuation of villages by air, and the setting-up of “environmental refugee” camps. I am wondering where the residents of 60 evacuated villages are.But it is the foolhardiness, the courage and the determination of those who refuse to evacuate that shocks me the most…

Emergency services are overwhelmed, and there is curfew in certain areas. The institutions of a liberal, western democracy, which are supposed to create a sense of security and a framework for liberty, are straining under pressure….As always, the really scary thing is the aftermath – the ecological disaster, and the social dislocations that follow it…

]]> By: John http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-1193609 John Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:43:04 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/27/greece-on-fire/#comment-1193609 The Truth: I'm a Hellene from Epirus, and I must say that this is such an embarassment to me. To see arson on such a large scale just proves to me that Hellas has become a ghetto country. Like the riots of Miami, Florida, the people in the ghetto burned their own back yard. Real bright. Now my own Countrymen do the same. The country as a whole has gone to hell and needs serious adjustments to their brilliant minds. You are screwed up people and shoul be ashamed of yourselves. Me, well I don't live there for just this reason and I'm not all too surprised that something like this could happen. Fix your back yard. For 25 centuries you have not done a damn thing. You're proud of our heritage but keep screwing up your future. Look at yourself now not then and look into the future. Yes we changed the world forever with our Hellenism but what are we now? Get your act together for the sake of Hellas! An Eiroti The Truth:

I’m a Hellene from Epirus, and I must say that this is such an embarassment to me. To see arson on such a large scale just proves to me that Hellas has become a ghetto country. Like the riots of Miami, Florida, the people in the ghetto burned their own back yard. Real bright. Now my own Countrymen do the same. The country as a whole has gone to hell and needs serious adjustments to their brilliant minds. You are screwed up people and shoul be ashamed of yourselves. Me, well I don’t live there for just this reason and I’m not all too surprised that something like this could happen. Fix your back yard. For 25 centuries you have not done a damn thing. You’re proud of our heritage but keep screwing up your future. Look at yourself now not then and look into the future. Yes we changed the world forever with our Hellenism but what are we now? Get your act together for the sake of Hellas!

An Eiroti

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