Already too late?
For ‘Whom the Bell Tolls’ by Donne prewarned the mankind that dangers and threats are inclusive. And we are seeing how the globe is spinning away faster but not fast enough to escape the impending doom of climate change.
According to reports appearing in the press and as shown on TV almost the whole of Europe and parts of the USA are in the grip of a heatwave unprecedented in history.
A quick switch of channels takes you from a wildfire in Spain and high temperatures in different parts of Europe (claiming lives as the continent sizzles in temperatures crossing 40C), to wildfires in Spain’s Catalonia region claiming the lives of two farmers, and to strange accidents across.
The recent case of family drowning is Swat River went viral across screens, reflecting strongly on the adversity that can be unleashed without notice.
Beaches that provided hours of entertainment and enjoyable moments in the past have become death traps, as in Italy, two men died after becoming unwell on beaches on the island of Sardinia, another man in his 80s died of heart failure, after walking into a hospital in Genoa.
Even teenagers are not safe as a 10-year-old American girl collapsed and died while visiting the Palace of Versailles in the south-west of........
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