Forest Fires in Greece
The 2021 forest fires in Greece pose a huge challenge because they are embedded in a vicious cycle. Learn how that vicious cycle can be broken by watching our short animation.
1. Climate change
- Take action against the EastMed Fossil Gas Pipeline here.
- Watch and share the video “Clean gas is a dirty lie”. (Greek subtitles available)
- Watch and share the video “Fossil gas, part of the problem, not the solution”. (Greek subtitles available)
- Watch and share the video “Ditch coal without gas”.
Climate change background info:
- https://beyond-coal.eu/2021/04/22/80090/
- https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/district_heating_western_macedonia_en.pdf
- https://thegreentank.gr/en/2021/04/20/ptolemaida-5-replacement-options/
2. Regenerative agriculture
- Support the Southern Lights project.
3. Tree ethic
- Burned forest is trying to close its wounds in Parnitha
- Unwanted volunteer firefighters
- We are not born to pollute and destroy the environment, we are born to care. Watch our video below and get active.
4. Impunity
5. Learn more about the fires in Greece
- Fires August 2021: Myths and truths (Report, Greenpeace Greece)
- Hell has a name: Varybobi
- Controversy over how the Varybobi fire started (electricity network?)
- Transfer of forest firefighting to the fire brigade is a mistake