“For the time being, it is urgent to focus all the forces of the State on helping those affected and repairing the damage as quickly as possible” says in a post on Facebook the Director of Public Administration Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou stressing that lately, our country has been tested by repeated natural disasters disasters.

A very large number of our fellow citizens have been seriously affected – and in some cases irreparably – by the fires first, by the floods afterwards, while huge parts of the plant and animal wealth of our country have been lost, in the forest of Dadia, in Pelion, in Volos , in Trikala, Karditsa, Larissa, the wider Thessalian plain, Skiathos and many other places. sums up.

“We feel pain for our fellow human beings who lost their lives. We fight for the missing, we think of those who struggle to save what they can from their lives. We wish strength to the officials of the state apparatus, the volunteers, all those who fight with them. For the time being, it is urgent to focus all the forces of the State on helping those affected and repairing the damage as quickly as possible”, he writes characteristically.

As he summarizes, these tragic situations have created a sense of fear, sometimes despair, in large sections of the population.

“We are finally beginning, at an incalculable cost, to realize that ecosystems are collapsing, the chain that secures our present and future is threatened, even our lives are at risk. Anxiety is pervasive, uncertainty about the next day dominant,” he emphasizes

With rationality, realism and without illusions we are invited to analyze the “why”, the “how” of the disasters, but above all the “what” must be done in order to deal, in a timely and effective manner, with the consequences of similar phenomena, which we are sure to experience again, he states, pointing out that specific actions, coordinated movements, preventive and deterrent initiatives are needed without further delay.

He also estimates that since the phenomenon does not only concern our country, transnational cooperation is necessary to deal with it.

The climate crisis entails a constant risk of violent upheavals, not only of the climate, but also of all the coordinates of our planet, he states concluding that we all have a responsibility, but also that we all hold our future in our hands, adding that as he has characteristically pointed out WWF “we are the first generation to know and the last to act”.