There's a tipping point when your credit runs out and all of your rainy day reserves dry up where things get really bad. It seems that's happening in Greece as many can't afford the price of heating oil and are burning anything they can get their hands on to keep warm. The unfortunate consequences: depleting forests that finally have recovered from the Nazis, cutting down parts of a 3,000 year old olive tree where Plato taught, and terrible air pollution (not to mention contributing to global warming).
http://capeandislands.org/post/under-cloud-austerity-real-smoke-clouds-greece-well
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/01/22/high-oil-prices-drive-greeks-to-burn-wood/
The part about the forests I heard on the radio.
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