(July 28, 2023 at 8:09 am)arewethereyet Wrote: It's still feckin' hot. And it's not supposed to get better soon.
And thanks to the Neo-Byzantine Emperor Belisarius who is (obviously) a climate sceptic it is about to get worse. I am going to share some of the dramatic pictures against the government efforts to destroy a millennia old beautiful forest in the South-Western regions of Turkey (Akbelen-Mugla – Near İzmir). Their aim is to extract coal (as in Climate change triggering coal) after having destroyed these beautyfull trees. Forget about the dramatic events and focus on the beauty of those trees (+ the local people of course). All of this in an effort to replace trees with a forest for apartment buildings in an effort they dare to call civilization. So let me ask this. When I am in one of those huge metropolitan areas anywhere in the world (being some sort of historian) I am always thinking, “What civilization has ever created something as ugly as this?” (meaning the entirely concrete covered areas we dare to call cities).
Whatever. The area is now the center of the most massive anti-government protests since the Gezi protests of Istanbul in 2013:
https://www.duvarenglish.com/topics/akbelen
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