The country’s on fire!

Literally, and for a while now. It’s just too depressing for words how every summer we become a couple of forests poorer. This time it was, amongst others, Parnitha, Athens’ very own forest and a National Park. People have been so shocked that we have had rallies and concerts to protect the burned land from becoming houses and to bemoan the State’s ineptitude that let the fire get so out of hand in the first place.

I am just as heart-broken as I am every summer, and just as sure that the mercenaries that seem to pull all the strings in this pathetic excuse of a state will let the land be built on even if it is/was a National Park, despite public outcry.