"France is currently glowing red with heat.
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"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
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"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
"France is hotter than the Sahara. What more polite wording do we need? The truth is that climate change is no longer a future threat. It’s a present-tense force reshaping the world. It’s in our classrooms, power grids, hospitals, farms, forests, oceans and homes. It’s in the silence where birds used to be. It’s in the heat stored in concrete at midnight. It’s in the river water too warm to cool a power station. It’s in the child trying to concentrate in a classroom never designed for 40 degrees.
The real danger isn’t only that these events are happening. It’s that we’re learning to live with them. Not by adapting in the serious, science-based, justice-based sense. But by emotionally accommodating them. Politically absorbing them. Lowering our expectations. Shrinking our imaginations. Forgetting what abundance felt like. Forgetting what safety felt like. Forgetting that this was preventable.
We need to remember what normal was, not because the past was perfect, but because memory is resistance"
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"France is hotter than the Sahara. What more polite wording do we need? The truth is that climate change is no longer a future threat. It’s a present-tense force reshaping the world. It’s in our classrooms, power grids, hospitals, farms, forests, oceans and homes. It’s in the silence where birds used to be. It’s in the heat stored in concrete at midnight. It’s in the river water too warm to cool a power station. It’s in the child trying to concentrate in a classroom never designed for 40 degrees.
The real danger isn’t only that these events are happening. It’s that we’re learning to live with them. Not by adapting in the serious, science-based, justice-based sense. But by emotionally accommodating them. Politically absorbing them. Lowering our expectations. Shrinking our imaginations. Forgetting what abundance felt like. Forgetting what safety felt like. Forgetting that this was preventable.
We need to remember what normal was, not because the past was perfect, but because memory is resistance"
@remixtures Yes! All of this! Plus, we need to take every billionaire who exists today - I don't care if we kill them or not, just - take all their wealth off them and redistribute it among people who need it for food, shelter, and medicine.
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@remixtures Yes! All of this! Plus, we need to take every billionaire who exists today - I don't care if we kill them or not, just - take all their wealth off them and redistribute it among people who need it for food, shelter, and medicine.
@remixtures I believe a very welcome by-product of this redistribution will be that the people who are preventing any useful action to fix the climate crisis will lose their power to do so.
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"France is hotter than the Sahara. What more polite wording do we need? The truth is that climate change is no longer a future threat. It’s a present-tense force reshaping the world. It’s in our classrooms, power grids, hospitals, farms, forests, oceans and homes. It’s in the silence where birds used to be. It’s in the heat stored in concrete at midnight. It’s in the river water too warm to cool a power station. It’s in the child trying to concentrate in a classroom never designed for 40 degrees.
The real danger isn’t only that these events are happening. It’s that we’re learning to live with them. Not by adapting in the serious, science-based, justice-based sense. But by emotionally accommodating them. Politically absorbing them. Lowering our expectations. Shrinking our imaginations. Forgetting what abundance felt like. Forgetting what safety felt like. Forgetting that this was preventable.
We need to remember what normal was, not because the past was perfect, but because memory is resistance"
@remixtures
We've been underestimating the speed and severity of global over-heating for decades. A few years ago I went back and looked over the IPCC reports starting with the first one. Everything the reports predicted came true sooner. "Blah blah will occur by 2100. Oh, sorry, it happened in 2019." When 45 C is a cool day on earth, we will wish we hadn't been so blind, selfish, and stupid. At what level of disaster will people wake up? When a single heat wave kills 10,000 people? 100,000? A million? Phoenix has a population of about 1.7 million. I've heard that if the electricity failed there during a heat wave, half the population of the city would need hospital care. There are perhaps 7,000 hospital beds in Phoenix.We're in big trouble.
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@remixtures
We've been underestimating the speed and severity of global over-heating for decades. A few years ago I went back and looked over the IPCC reports starting with the first one. Everything the reports predicted came true sooner. "Blah blah will occur by 2100. Oh, sorry, it happened in 2019." When 45 C is a cool day on earth, we will wish we hadn't been so blind, selfish, and stupid. At what level of disaster will people wake up? When a single heat wave kills 10,000 people? 100,000? A million? Phoenix has a population of about 1.7 million. I've heard that if the electricity failed there during a heat wave, half the population of the city would need hospital care. There are perhaps 7,000 hospital beds in Phoenix.We're in big trouble.
They assumed our governments would take it seriously and take reasonable steps to combat it. They did not anticipate the sociopathic, almost suicidal, acceleration that we got as billionaires are pulling out every stop to make as much money from dirty power until we literally lynch them into stopping (because they own our politicians).
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"France is hotter than the Sahara. What more polite wording do we need? The truth is that climate change is no longer a future threat. It’s a present-tense force reshaping the world. It’s in our classrooms, power grids, hospitals, farms, forests, oceans and homes. It’s in the silence where birds used to be. It’s in the heat stored in concrete at midnight. It’s in the river water too warm to cool a power station. It’s in the child trying to concentrate in a classroom never designed for 40 degrees.
The real danger isn’t only that these events are happening. It’s that we’re learning to live with them. Not by adapting in the serious, science-based, justice-based sense. But by emotionally accommodating them. Politically absorbing them. Lowering our expectations. Shrinking our imaginations. Forgetting what abundance felt like. Forgetting what safety felt like. Forgetting that this was preventable.
We need to remember what normal was, not because the past was perfect, but because memory is resistance"
@remixtures La memoria.
Junio, 1970, Valencia, España.
Entre 22/23º C temperatura media.
Duración de la ola de calor (30º C, viento de Poniente) 3 días.
2026, mismo mes y territorio.
Entre 32/35º C temperatura media.
Duración de la ola de calor, 30 días.
Más memoria.
Se va a necesitar un Nuremberg más grande, del tamaño de los Campos Elíseos y con los acusados a pleno sol.
Por no ser tan sádicos como ellos se les puede entregar una botella de 200 ml. de Evian y un sombrerito de Roland Garros. -
"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
Some billionaire somewhere: "What a splendid opportunity to monetize my geoengineering dream grift!"
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"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
@remixtures Naah... (Joke aside, yes everyone should feel concerned. People will find ways to adapt when the situation is bad enough, but the better time to do it efficiently would be now. Or yesterday.)
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"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
@remixtures and French govt is still moving away from ecolgy because security and strangers are quite more important to all of this.
building useless highways, legalising use of poison (oh sorry, pesticide) for food, cuting budget for isolation, ... -
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