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What's playing out on Rhodes is a real-time process of climatic transition — and perhaps desertification — that we will see again and again (Photo: Sky News/Screengrab)

Rhodes to ruin — fleeing the Greek inferno

My family and I left Rhodes on Saturday morning (22 July) — just as the island's forest fire escaped all control. But ominous warnings had been in the (35 degree celsius) air all week.

The apologetic manager at the astronomy café on a hilltop who couldn't serve water as it was being siphoned to fight the fires further south; the taxi driver from Apollona in a state of shock and fear after his home village was evacuated, and of course the water-carrying helicopters at Rhodes airport as ...

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Arthur Neslen writes about the environment for the Guardian, Open Democracy, Equal Times and others. He was formerly the Guardian's European environment correspondent.

What's playing out on Rhodes is a real-time process of climatic transition — and perhaps desertification — that we will see again and again (Photo: Sky News/Screengrab)

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Arthur Neslen writes about the environment for the Guardian, Open Democracy, Equal Times and others. He was formerly the Guardian's European environment correspondent.

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