Jammu, July 29 -- Movement for cleaner air and environment has to be widespread
By Ben Chacko
LONDON: France holds emergency meetings on the evacuation of Bordeaux, a city of a million, as wildfires sweep ever closer. In Spain families are fleeing the capital, Madrid.
The reality of the climate emergency has come to Europe. There were plenty of warning signs - more severe heatwaves by the year, droughts and floods devastating harvests - including in Britain, where three of the five worst harvests on record have been since 2020 - and worsening wildfires.
In Britain this summer fires have burnt swathes of the Cairngorms and Eryri (Snowdonia), as well as Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh for the second year running. As summer heatwaves grow longe...