Greece … on fire!!

Greece … on fire!!

During the last 72 hours more than sixty people have been found dead due to the fires that have appeared in the country. It is a real tragedy so many to people to die from fires. Also, many unique forests have been destroyed, and a major environmental disaster has been caused.

This summer is the worst of the last years as concerns the burned forests. It is characteristic, that the forest Parnitha which is one of the last forests that still exist in Athens (the capital of Greece) was burnt down and the scientists believe that it will take 70- 150 years to become as it was before the fire.

After Parnitha, in which many rare animal species lived, another forest in Peloponnesus, below Athens, with many rare species was destroyed during the last three day. Actually many forests of Peloponnesus caught fire these three days and that is the place where sixty people died from the fires. Now the firemen are trying to prevent the fire from going towards the ancient town of Olympia, the place where the Olympiads originally took place in the ancient Greece

Maybe the worst thing is that not only we managed to cause a huge environmental damage and sixty people died, but that the firemen found out some things which caused the fires to say that most of the fires were caused by arsonists. I do not know how or why the arsonists are doing this to our future, because destroying the forests means destroying our future, but it causes anger to every thinking person. Even though I do not think it will happen, I hope that the arsonists will be caught and punished strictly