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.
Not my blog type, I dont care.
God please stay safe everyone, take care
A perfect example what is wrong with the media. I canāt recall hearing about it in the German news.
I had nightmares like this when I was little.
Dear gods this is horrible!
The world is on fire, literally and metaphorically.
Holy shit
Hello please donāt blame individuals for their countryās news outlets refusing to cover things. This is awful and we do care, we just need to be told itās happening.
This shit is happening and our ānewsā outlets deign to report on such inconsequential things as the shenanigans of celebrities instead, and it is INFURIATING.
Reblogging to spread awareness. These beautiful countries (Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Portugal) are burning with intense wildfires which have apparently exposed the EUās unreadiness to combat such a disaster. Many people ā at least 80 in Greece alone, according to the New York Times (July 25, 2018) have died ā including 26 people together at one Greek resort, some dying with their arms around each other ā and the scenes of devastation are shocking. The cause of the fires is still being investigated, but intense hot and dry weather is contributing to the spread of the blazes.
As a resident of California, which deals with terrible wildfires also, my heart goes out to these countries and the families who have lost loved ones, as well as everything else they had.
Please reblog to spread awareness of this ongoing disaster ā thatās all they are asking.
Itās not only Southern Europe; Sweden, too, suffers from wild fires out of control
yup, thereās a wildfire around half an hour away from where I live. Itās crazy. Fortunately, nobody has been hurt yetā¦
@pheita Iām not sure if youāre actively avoiding the news, but the fires are most certainly all over the German news?! And Iām not even in Germany right now, but everyone from back home is asking how the situation here is right nowā¦
@rarecolesprouse and @xirosh you both tagged my in this post and basically claimed I donāt read/watch news. It is bold of you to assume the reblogg and my addition to it happened within the last couple of days where the wild fires were the major topic all over the news I looked up in my archive when I reblogged this and it was somewhere in April and correct me if I am wrong there was nothing about fires in Croatia, Italy or Spain on the news. . So the next time you feel like asking if someone avoids the news take into consideration the post/reblog/addition might be weeks or even months ago since Tumblr doesnāt adds time stamps on the rebloggs/posts. A lot of posts circulate for years now and get additions every now and then. Now with this said:Ā Please stay safe everyone. It is just a matter of time until more countries have to deal with wild fires and a lot of European countries arenāt properly prepared for this amount.
