Italy was in the grip of extreme heat waves, hellish wildfires and biblical downpours, and a nerve-wracked young Italian woman wept as she stood in a theater to tell the country’s environment minister about her fears of a climatically apocalyptic future.
“I personally suffer from eco-anxiety,” Giorgia Vasaperna, 27, said, her eyes welling and her hands fidgeting, at a children’s film festival in July.
“I have a responsibility toward all of you,” he said, visibly choked up.
“I have a responsibility toward my grandchildren.”Europe is a continent on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Italians are frazzled as a summer of incinerating heat waves lingers and fear mounts over the return of hailstones the size of handballs.
Persons:
“, Giorgia, welling, fidgeting, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, ”
Locations:
Italy, Europe, Greece