Diogenis Dimitrakopoulos interviewed Yorgos Avgeropoulos, director of Mankind’s Folly, for DW Greek at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), discussing the climate crisis.
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❝The documentary Mankind’s Folly («Η Ύβρις της Ανθρωπότητας»), directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos and co-produced by the Franco-German television network Arte, documents the environmental destruction in the Arctic, where the melting of permafrost threatens to release ancient viruses and vast quantities of methane.‘It is the new stage of climate collapse. As the ground thaws, it releases greenhouse gases from organic matter that had been trapped for thousands of years. Our planet is becoming warmer with a ticking time bomb from the past.
The temperature in Alaska has risen by 9 degrees over 12,000 years. One third of that increase occurred during my lifetime,’ says Avgeropoulos in an interview with DW Greek.The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet. In Siberia, 80% of buildings in some cities have been damaged due to ground subsidence. In Alaska, communities are calling for relocation to safer ground, becoming the first climate refugees.‘We are in a state of “Ate” — a kind of mental blindness driven by profit. “Nemesis” will come from the planet itself, rendering it uninhabitable for future generations,’ the director notes.❞
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