“40% of arable land is at risk”

The climate crisis threatens Greece. The effects on the Thessalian plain.

Dedicated to climate crisis and on its effects in Greece was today’s show of Mega, “Megali Ikonna” with Niki Lymberakiswhere references were made, among other things, to its desertification arable land and rising sea temperatures.

In terms of arable land and climate crisis, it became known that “about 40% of the country is at risk”. “These are the estimates we have, we know that in times of drought we have had a shortage of wheat.”

“There was a period of great drought and we were led to weakened the power of the Mycenaeans and let the Dorians descend and from there on things are known. History, then and there, was written with environmental disasters. The difference is that the drought was due to climate anomalies and lasted 30 years.”

“Now what we are seeing is to stay for many decades. We see her eastern Greece to receive less and less rain and the groundwater to have receded unimaginably, both from over-cultivation and from rising sea levels”

Climate crisis: Water shortage problem in the Thessalian plain

“In the same area we found that 7% of the total area due to waterlogging” said an expert on the effects of climate change on the Thessalian plain, which has recently become the focus of extreme weather events.

“It clearly exists in certain areas of Thessaly that are close to the coasts of the Aegean. Thessaly currently has an annual water deficit amounting to 250 million square meters,” he continued to Mega.

“Currently, 2.5 million acres are being irrigated in the Thessalian plain. If we don’t do something, it will need to be reduced by 1 million acres because we have a water deficit. Not all regions of Greece will be affected to the same extent,” he added.