At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a heat wave gripped Europe and smashed temperature records in several cities Monday.
As schools in France closed or modified their schedules, forecasters in Britain predicted temperatures could break June records this week.
The temperature in Bordeaux in France’s western wine country rose to 41.9 C, breaking a record set last August. In Poitiers, in central France, it reached 41.2 C, surpassing a previous high set in 1947.
And boomers wonder why Gen Z and millennials aren’t having kids.
They aren’t having kids because France doesn’t use air conditioners or hasn’t typically in the past? It isn’t a money thing, it’s a “we don’t need them and never have” thing and now they do. It’s like buying a dryer in south east Asia, they don’t use them and they’re incredibly hard to even find one to buy.
- You can’t just negate a heat wave with AC, most people actually need to be outside sometimes.
- AC mitigates the symptom, not the root. Actually, it contributes to the root issue massively, especially with wide-scale use. And it will not be enough when the heatwaves will reach 10, 20 °C higher.
You are aware that the AC doesn’t do much when you’re outside?
They aren’t having kids because this weather is not normal: climate change is bringing extreme weather that is already causing big problems and will only become worse in the future.
Don’t be an idiot and pretend you didn’t know that’s what they meant.
I mean, it’s pretty funny that you would say gen z aren’t having kids because of climate change like it’s a settled single-source issue. There are many reasons, climate change is one of them
The cost to the global economy of dealing with fossil fuel dependency is going to be huge. So instead we are going to faaaaaall down and worship at the Moloch of the Capitalism with annual human sacrifices. India is ahead of the game with 40k levels of human sacrifice (about 3500 per day!), so the other countries need to step up their game, because only 18 people in France, those are rookie numbers.
Without this “fossil fuel dependency” there wouldn’t be 8 billion people and we’d be at an early 19th century economy. You know, when they had 100% renewable energy?
What a ridiculous thing to say, what a bullshit argument.
There has existed a scientific consensus about the dangers of climate change due to CO2 emissions since the late 1980s. The first IPCC report came out in 1990. That’s 36 years ago. MORE THAN THREE FUCKING DECADES that our leaders have had the knowledge that humanity needs to change course. MORE THAN THREE DECADES of lost opportunity to actually change the structure of our economies and the inputs/outputs of industrial base.
So give me a fucking break from the bullshit.
Sounds good to me.
I’m waiting for all the “it’s supposed to be hot in the summer” comments.
Luckily, I’m not going out.
