On Wednesday this week, exactly five years after you published our letter under the headline “With the world on fire, we must act now to tackle climate change” (8 August 2018), we woke up to the news that, yet again, our son’s agroforestry smallholding in the mountains above the Algarve is threatened by wildfires.
We are fiddling while Europe burns, yet what is the solution? Our political system seems unable to grapple with this existential threat, and while we try personally to do everything possible to effect change – politically, lifestyle, campaigning, influencing – it’s all too slow.
