Journeys of destruction are of our own making

Flames burn a forest in Vati village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes on Tuesday. A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius across parts of the country on Tuesday following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days. Picture: AP/Petros Giannakouris

The Faustian pact we’ve made, the one that may end our world is encapsulated in two simple facts. Ryanair made a profit of nearly €1.5bn last year. To sustain, or maybe improve that performance, the airline continues to fly passengers on a daily basis to Rhodes ... the Greek island that has, because of climate change, become an inferno.

Ryanair, just like our food and farm sectors, and most airlines, cannot but be seen as concepts in need of fundamental reform if Rhodes’ disaster is not to be eventually replicated around much of our world.