i think it is quite telling that how the wildfires in australia was trending for months and everyone around the world was screaming about how terrifying it is that climate change affects us. turkey and greece had been burning for days because of the extreme heatwaves and there are so little information about it going around, let alone trending or whatsoever.
this above, is a great map example of how the extreme heat changes are causing wildfires, because the entire agean sea and east mediterranean is on fire as we speak. turkey is around 46°C, and greece 43°C, with the approximate ground being 53°C. these fires are not in only forests, but they are in the city centres too. antalya and almost every district of muğla had been burnt to ground, and it keeps spreading to new districts, with athens, the capital city of greece facing extreme difficulties because the fires had reached there at last. also many of the small islands in greece were affected and electricity went off in athens, the biggest city of greece. our animals are suffering, and more of them are dying each day.
these photos i am putting below, are from istanbul and izmir. none of those two cities had experienced any kind of fires in these last week, but the entirety of the cities skies had been painted with these colours and even at almost 40°C, the sun is almost invisable because of the waves coming from greece& south coast of turkey causing an "ash rain". this is just the beginning of the end because every year the heat keeps getting worse and worse, meaning that the wildfires become more and more dangerous each year. climate change isn't just something special for america or australia, but small countries are suffering too and it is way much harder for us to fight these, as both countries struggle with stopping the fires. if it keeps going this way, next year will be much, much harder for us to stop the fires and more lives will be gone. this is no joke.
