While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action
As France and Spain
battle historic wildfires
, comparisons to the second world war abound. “One of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II,”
reports the Associated Press
. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called the wildfires his country’s “
most difficult situation since the second world war
”.
The images crossing all our screens certainly feel war-like – emergency aircraft and black smoke fill the skies, frantic civilians seeking shelter, historic towns lying in ruins, charred forests and burned-out vehicles, exhausted and sweat-soaked emergency responders.

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