Another searing heat wave is gripping Europe, the third so far this season. On Tuesday, Greek authorities closed the Acropolis to visitors and barred outdoor work as temperatures soared. Firefighters have been battling wildfires in Greece, Spain and France, as well as in Turkey and Syria. In the southern French city of Marseilles, fires injured at least 100 people and temporarily forced the international airport to shut down. This is a Marseilles resident whose home was damaged.

Pascale Reigner: “We only have one planet. France behaves as if we have two and a half, even though we only have one. So we have to change our way of living. We have to change our mindset. We have to learn wisdom, because we are currently scheduling our end. And there is everything else that we do not see here, the squirrels, all the animals that I saw every day, which are dead, and which will take decades to come back, if they come back at all. This is also an ecocide.”

A report this week found some 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the last heat wave that started at the end of June. Scientists attributed 1,500 of those deaths directly to the climate crisis.