“Communities should be aware of the risks of hosting vulnerable industrial infrastructure, particularly as rising global temperatures increase the risk of extreme downpours and powerful hurricanes.”

Mr Holloway warned them they should be "aware of the risks".

"Ask for help and be aware," he said.

And to be attached is to be aware, to embrace responsibility to the land, to the planet, to survival, to each other.

"In places like Homs and Hama, there are entire neighbourhoods which have been almost completely destroyed. Anybody going into those structures to assess them, for either demolition or to rebuild them, needs to be aware that there may well be unexploded items in there, whether it's bullets, cluster munitions, grenades, shells."