Rhodes on fire and is the UK cooling on net zero policies?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our Europe correspondent in Rhodes, Siobhan Robbins and Rhodes resident Micah Greaves, who tells us how dependent the island is on tourism. Plus, Niall is joined by Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies and former Tory advisor, to discuss if net zero policies can still be vote winners as the row continues over ULEZ expansion in London.
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| 1:01.3 | Hello all, I'm Neil Patterson, |
| 1:03.6 | and on this edition of the Sky News Daily, |
| 1:05.5 | and not for the first time this summer, |
| 1:08.7 | we're looking at the extreme life-threatening weather conditions, |
| 1:11.5 | currently being felt most significantly on the Greek island of Rhodes. Everything is so dry, it's just a tinderbox. The whole island's a tinderbox. |
| 1:18.5 | In fact, evacuation orders have been issued. 19,000 people have been forced to flee, thousands of |
| 1:25.0 | them tourists, including Brits, desperately seeking away home. |
| 1:29.3 | Although this area of the Mediterranean often experiences wildfires at this time of year, |
| 1:33.2 | the scientific consensus is that climate change is making their effects that much more dangerous. |
| 1:39.8 | And yet, as we watch Rhodes Burn, here in the UK, political parties, |
| 1:43.8 | they're at least giving |
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