PORTUGAL’S TURN FOR FOREST FIRE CHAOS

These days, one does not have to look hard for evidence of the ecological chaos that is starting to dominate our lives. As I sit here writing this even, an update comes through from Courrier International site entitled ‘Climate Emergency — how to survive the summer in an overheated of New York’.

No longer can one hide from the headlines.

It is slightly rarer, though, that the news headline is your visible reality. For a Northern European, where weather until recently has been relatively stable, this is all the more striking. The important…