We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein
Seth Klein argues that governments must adopt a 'wartime mindset' to effectively combat the escalating global wildfire crisis. He criticizes current leadership for failing to address the root cause of the climate emergency, specifically the continued reliance on fossil fuels.
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It highlights the disconnect between the severity of climate-induced disasters and the scale of current political policy responses.
‘We need a wartime mindset and political and policy agenda to tackle the climate emergency.’ ‘We need a wartime mindset and political and policy agenda to tackle the climate emergency.’ Opinion Climate crisis We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires Seth Klein While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action
A s France and Spain battle historic wildfires , comparisons to the second world war abound. “One of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II,” reports the Associated Press . The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called the wildfires his country’s “ most difficult situation since the second world war ”.
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