Ajit Niranjan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And so if you are a regional authority in a wildfire average region, it feels difficult to turn people away, knowing that that then reduces the kind of tax euros that you'll have to be able to kind of invest, say, in firefighting services and so on.
Yeah.
Two issues here.
One is that tourists often are very much less familiar with the risks.
And that means that if you've come from a chilly northern European city and you've come for a week in southern France or Spain and you, A, don't speak the language perhaps, so you're not paying attention to the warnings that are coming out from evacuation alerts and so on.
B, if you don't take the basic precautions that locals might take in terms of maybe not getting really drunk
in the middle of the day during 40 degree heat in a dangerous area.
I mean, it almost sounds silly, but these are really things that do matter and do affect how many people will end up living or dying.
Then I guess the other aspect to mention is that one contributor to these heat waves getting worse, to these wildfires getting worse,
is the tourism itself.
I mean, aviation is about between 2% and 4% of planet heating emissions.
And in rich countries, it ends up being a much bigger share of how much we actually pollute and worsen the problem.
And so tourism is almost by necessity having to have a rethink of how it exists in these places that used to be seen as kind of a hot fun break away from maybe the grey and dreary monotony of the UK or Germany.
But what seems likely to happen from the tourism experts I've spoken to is not that suddenly these regions will become no-go zones.
It's much more that people will just shift their patterns to maybe going in spring or autumn instead of during the peak of the summer, rather than seeing this kind of whole scale collapse of tourism in southern Spain or southwest France.
Thank you.
So Western Europe has been scorched by its hottest June on record.
So the air over the month was about three degrees Celsius above the average from recent decades.
And records have just been broken over and over and over again.
I live in Berlin, which is a city in Northern Europe that is not known for being very hot.
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