Wildfires show us how the climate emergency is already affecting Europe | Imogen West-Knights
We look at the devastation of Australia’s bushfires and don’t believe it could happen here. But it already is
One weekend during the fiercely hot summer of 2018, when every single fan in Sweden had sold out, my boyfriend and I decided to get out of Stockholm and go camping. When we arrived at the campsite, we were asked not to smoke, and told firmly that no fires of any kind could be lit, owing to the forest fires that had been raging from the Arctic Circle to the Baltic Sea.
Later that day, we received emergency notifications on our phones. Several more fires
