Anger as Meloni government accused of lacking will to confront climate crisis
About 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna overnight after devastating floods and landslides, as Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government was accused of lacking the will to confront the climate crisis., killing at least 24 people. Several major cities in central Europe were bracing for swollen rivers to peak on Thursday., which killed 17 people and caused €8.5bn of damage.
There are no deaths reported in the latest flooding, which has also affected parts of the neighbouring Marche region. However, anger is mounting among residents at the sluggish progress of works intended to help protect the region from flooding.“My home has once again been destroyed,” a resident in Faenza, a town in Ravenna province, said in a video collated byExtreme rainfall is becoming more common because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world.
In Poland’s third-largest city, Wrocław, the defences appeared to be holding firm after two frantic days of work to reinforce them by the military and civil protection forces and volunteers among the city’s 600,000 residents. Poland has deployed 14,000 troops to its hardest-hit region, near the Czech border.
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