the forestry department has hired teams of locals to cut down burnt wood all over northern evia to make space for new trees to grow. chainsaw whirrs. it wasn t just the island of evia. this summer, athens was burning too. we came here in august, we stood here and we watched, first of all there was smoke coming over that mountain, and then we saw the flames coming over the mountain and the hillside burning. to see all the, where
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protective terraces of logs to stop landslides this winter. the forestry department has had teams hired teams of locals to cut down burnt wood all over northern evia to make space for new trees to grow. chainsaw whirrs. it wasn t just the island it wasn tjust the island of avia. this summer, athens was burning as well. we came here in august, we stood here and we
what became clear to me reporting on the fires in northern evia is that already the climate crisis is hitting very hard all over the world in local places and that the response, the reaction is local. when you talk to people in northern evia they don t say, oh, it s climate crisis crisis, climate change, they go, the government let us down. there weren t enough things. the fire brigade wasn t competent. there s this local response which comes way before an understanding of the global situation. and so we have to, it s that old slogan, think globally, act locally. henry, i was just really interested in the point she s making because this is a problem presumably forjoe biden. he s going to come to glasgow, he is doubtless going to sign up
After the devastating fires of summer, the island of Evia has now been hit with disastrous floods due to heavy rain last night affecting mostly the villages