i never talk about these things but i canāt remain silent.
i know tumblr doesnāt give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside theĀ āmost popular onesā (such as the usa & england). itās true, donāt lie to me. yāall donāt give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKINGĀ WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you sayĀ āpray for xāā¦ā¦
southern europe is burning.Ā
my country is burning.
people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.
yesterday my country had 300 active fires.
people are losing EVERYTHING they own.
i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense itās getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.
and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europeā¦ what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we donāt ask for money, we donāt ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awarenessā¦ something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish.Ā
i donāt know what to tell you. iām angry. iām frustrated. iām disappointed. i feel like iām screaming into the void. āa reblog does nothingā - you know thatās a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. yāall are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit weāve been winning lately.Ā
but hell, if the EU doesnāt give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?
again, i donāt know what to tell you so iāll let the images speak for themselves:Ā
An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete
Torneros de Jamuz, Spain
Duca, Croatia
A helicopter from Italyās civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste
Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios
Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece
Portugal
This is fucking important. I am glad someone fucking spoke about this and said what they had to say. The damage is terrible, and all the evergreen, stone, even the ground is black. I was fucking terrified when Croatia was burning. The fire was near a village where I like and I thought it will burn down. I thought the church will burn down. I thought the cemetery where my grandpa is buried will burn. I still remember the smell of smoke, and when I went to check how bad is fire, my clothes and hair and skin all stunk of smoke. It didnāt go away for weeks.
This is NASAās picture of Croatia and Montenegro burning. My fucking country was burning. Fucking reblog this. I donāt care that it isnāt UK or US, or that it doesnāt go with your blog, fucking. Reblog. It.
