Blame Game Ignition: How Climate Change Fuels Europe's Wildfires Alexander Held, a Senior Expert in fire management, has sparked a necessary debate by pointing out that Europe's wildfire crisis is not about uncontainable natural disasters, but rather a culmination of ecological and governance failures.
His words are a rebuke to the prevailing narrative that these blazes are simply an unfortunate consequence of climate change.
The European Union has been reeling from record breaking wildfire seasons, with the latest devastating inferno in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains scorching over 40,000 hectares.