The summer of 2023 recorded the highest temperatures in the world, along with natural disasters the likes of which we have not witnessed before. It is true that fires and floods are natural occurring phenomena, but this summer they swept through new areas, and were distinguished by their size, intensity, breadth and recurrence over a limited period of time. No sooner would a fire be extinguished than a flood would wash away entire towns, as happened in Libya and Greece, as if the world had entered an endless destructive cycle.