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.
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.
In fairness three decades isn’t actually that long of a time.
Wtf?
Dinosaurs were 100 million years ago etc etc. 36 years is not even a blip in time.
We’re talking human economic policy bro. 36 years is an era.
Slavery took about 100 years of gradual policy reform and a civil war to change.
Sounds good to me.