At the Great Icon, he spoke Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Christos Zerefosand referred to climate crisis and the changes we see in different parts of our country.
Like he said, right now 40% of arable land is at risk and the point from Corinth to Sparta is almost semi-deserted.
“Our estimates are that about 40% of arable land is at risk. We know that during periods of drought there were times when we had a shortage of wheat. You see the little ice age that was from 1400 to 1850 and old droughts like the one that weakened the multi-gold Mycenae. The Mycenaean civilization relied on the economic strength they had by selling the oil.
There was a long period of drought, and we were led to the weakening of the power of the Mycenaeans and the descent of the Dorians. Society was written with environmental disasters. The difference is that then the drought it was due to climate anomalies and lasted 30 years.
Now what we see is to stay for many decades. We see her Eastern Greece to receive less rain and the underground water that we have in Eastern Greece to have retreated unimaginably. Both from cultivation and from sea level rise. Laconia already this entire coastline from Corinth to Sparta is already semi-deserted!».
