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 As 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 ”. The images crossing all our screens certainly feel war-like – emergency aircraft and black smoke fill the skies, frantic civilians seeking shelter, historic towns lying in ruins, charred forests and burned-out vehicles, exhausted and sweat-soaked emergency responders. Continue reading...

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