@johnb48 Yes. Our infrastructure is designed to let sunlight in and retain heat, so it doesn't even have to reach 30 before we're having everyday difficulties functioning in heat.

@peterbrown Yes, such a relief every time we can walk under trees. To be fair to both the council and the city, we're fairly okay in Aarhus - a fair amount of shady green spaces and street trees, including public benches with tree shade. This is just a snapshot of one particular stretch of sreet with not many. I hope we get more.

@Tooden Yes. Ameliorating measures like that are going to be seen more and more, no doubt. It is only going to get hotter from here.

@NicelyManifest I wonder if people from Southern Europe are already coming here for so-called 'coolcations'. If so, I hope they are not coming by plane.

@woe2you Haha - no

@mikill I am well aware. This is not the same. People away on holidays does not result in deserted Guldsmedgade. It's a busy place with lots of local residents. And there are visitors all over. When you turn a corner into a neighbouring street with shadow, there are people.

@altlazybear Snap! I thought something similar just yesterday, when a few of us made room for each other to pass in and out of an area of shade where two streets met. We all gave other that little smile I remember from when people passed each other at a slight distance on lockdown walks.

@hanktank61 Flying flying flying, then complaining about the heat on their holiday after they fly fly fly home

@johnb48 Aarhus - I tagged the place. I think the high was 30 yesterday. Scorching, whatever degree it officially was.

@pms I'm not sure which was more startling - to see Guldsmedsgade near-deserted or to see the natural heatwave-choreography as people walked almost in single file in the thin line of shadow.

I've just realised that I never mentioned the temperature in the toot or in the Alt Text. I didn't think to specify why there are so few people around. I took it for granted. I think I have normalised the scorching heat.

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Mid-afternoon, mid-city, the middle of the Summer holidays. This is usually one of the most bustling streets in the city centre. Always lots of people walking around, parking bikes, waiting to meet someone, cycling by, window-shopping, standing while doing something on their phone, hanging out, going in and out of the busy supermarket. Unsettling to see it almost deserted, the few people around all walking in the thin line of shadow on one side of the street.

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@aj42 Dejlig by - nyd turen!

@aj42 God Fanø-ferie!

@stevel Extremely cool!

@gerrymcgovern @zenmorph Great observations and points.

One of the things that is giving me some hope these days is a podcast, of all things. An audio drama. Lost Terminal. A hopepunk, solarpunk series based in the post-collapse world, after climate collapse and 'the resource wars'. It's based in technological and scientific and natural science reality, showing ways to live in a restructured human society. So much hope and civilization. Great drama story too.

https://lostterminal.com/

@jawarajabbi It is so frustrating. Good for you trying to make the point. Even if she didn't want to hear, maybe somebody else will hear and listen.

@ehproque @miki @FreakyFwoof

"adapting to unpredictability is *hard*"

A great point.

@Brokar It's a mess. The deflection is strong on all sides. Politicians and industry deflect by pointing at individual carbon footprints. Individuals deflect by pointing at industry and at individual billionaire's private jets, as long as they do nothing, we do nothing. And yes, the GAI energy waste on top of all this is downright distressing.

@miki @FreakyFwoof That's a great phrase. Suitably accurate and alarming.