The official charged with protecting Greece’s capital from the effects of rising temperatures has criticised the “criminal lack of preparedness” by the world’s political leaders, as the Mediterranean region endures one of the hottest summers on record.
Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of Athens, said the fires that had reached the outskirts of the city and devastated more than 120,000 hectares of the Aegean nation were only a foretaste of what was to come.
“This is . . . the beginning of an irreversible devastation, a ravaging of ecosystems and livelihoods, due to climate change and the criminal lack of preparedness for extreme heat,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times.
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