The chickens are coming home to roost

I am writing these lines as a wildfire rages through a nature reserve on the island of Evia, north of Athens. It's impossible not to think about climate change. Not the one which will happen at some future point in time (as some people tend to believe out of optimism or denial), but the one whose consequences are already in full swing, as temperatures around the planet are rising fast, as the polar ice caps are melting, as Alaska's temperatures are off the charts, hitting an all-time record of 32 degrees Celsius, as heat waves are engulfing parts of Central Europe, and as Siberian forests are razed by fire.
Greece, a country where summer temperatures are among the highest in Europe, with its swaths of pine forests and the lax demeanor of the majority of government officials and citizens, is naturally no exception to the trend.
There is so far no evidence as to what caused...