Moved by the apocalyptic scenes, he spontaneously told the media that a day of mourning should be proclaimed for the decimated forests, and appealed for mass foresting of "naked" hills and valleys.
Dirnut apokaliptičnim prizorima, spontano je medijima rekao kako bi trebao biti proglašen dan žalosti za uništene šume, te je pozvao na masovno pošumljavanje "ogoljelih" brda i dolina.