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Yep, and Americans answering with "we're ok because we have AC" is a Don't Look Up moment
I sure hope their electricity grid can handle it when everyone turns on the AC and data centers also start pulling extra because it's so hot.
At least in my country (Netherlands) the neoliberals have decided every single fucking thing needs to turn a consistent profit and the company who handles the grid is only allowed to upgrade when there is "utility and necessity" which in essence means any time they want to upgrade in anticipation of future demand everyone involved drags their feet.
The result of that policy is that now there is a ridiculous waiting list for commercial grid connections and there are plans to also restrict new high capacity residential connections. For a country that has been run by businessmen for the past 20 years we sure seem to have an awful lack of long-term vision.
Don't even get me started on the attitude that people here have towards A/C. We don't live in a country that's only hot for 1 week a year anymore but lots of ppl just won't accept that. I guess it's climate coping/denial combined with wanting to feel superior to Americans.
We will be cooked (literally)
Business men are myopic and not strategic for 30 years into the future? I am so shocked! 🙀 😲
They optimized their profit, just not yours you gotta understand. I.e the money is not gone it's just somewhere else.
It's crazy to me because surely you would be extracting more wealth from working people (and raising the blessed holy statistic known as GDP) with a grid that actually works and can take on new customers. I know they're evil but I guess they're also just stupid.
It's definitely not ok, but when treating the root cause will take decades if not centuries (which we absolutely should still do), perhaps it makes sense to look into treating the symptoms as well
To my knowledge a lot of ACs can't even operate at those temperatures, or only in a degraded fashion. The optimal maximum outside temperature of mine apparently is 35°C. After that the radiator can't get rid of the heat fast enough to have the inside unit work at full capacity.
There are genius ways to build homes that get cooled down even without electricity. See the "earthship" design for example, routing fresh air through pipes in the ground where it cools down, going through the home as the hot air gets sucked out by a "thermal chimmey" (literally creates airflow by using the sun). If we combined that with good insulation to avoid the sun heating up walls and windows we'd have liveable temperatures inside even at 50°C outside. But western countries not even remotely progressive enough for such a radical but necessary structural shift, so even right now we keep building houses designed to trap heat.
Solar panels and air con are a good short-term solution
And by short-term I mean my whole life
where are these americans saying "we're ok because we have AC"?
It's been the defining sentiment to the story when discussed in the US. The GOP has taken to the rhetoric of comparing heat deaths in Europe to gun deaths in US, as in Europe is being far more irresponsible not installing AC than US is not controlling guns (their words).
Mostly MAGA looking to literally die on that hill, (or expect thier grandchildren to)
the ~~planet is~~ humans are really fucked
For want of a more succinct meme - I swear there was one that just said "Silly humans..." | "I'll be fine."
This really misses the point. Humans are taking the majority of other species with us. It doesn't matter that we are not destroying the entire planet forever, of course life will go on, but triillions of animals and plants are going to suffer and die entirely because of our actions.
Humans are also genociding a lot of other species. I don't want numbats to go extinct.
Some extinction events wiped out 99%of species... and life came back.
That's nice, but I want the numbats to live long happy lives with children who love them.
Let me put it this way:
My grandparents built a brick house in the early 1950's in northern Germany. My parents built on that foundation and doubled the size in the late 1980's. Air conditioning was not a thing back then. You just didn't need it at all.
For decades this house has kept a relatively cool 24-25°C (~75°F) during peak summer months. Just due to the way it was built.
That hasn't been true for the past ~10 years anymore.
And it's the same with almost all German infrastructure. Our traditional ways of building things are not fit for the frequent high heatwaves we've been experiencing this last decade. Even hospitals are generally not AC'd except for maybe ER and operating rooms. It's fucking miserable
It's fucked, and we were warned decades ago and did nothing but drill, baby, drill.
A lot of people will die. Which I'm pretty sure they're fine with, less people= less expenses for social welfare programs, lower property values, and so on
"They" being the people in charge of our world-wide MegaForce economy, think JP Morgan and those who "serve" terms at The FED. (in actuality, they take turns reaming us, inflation is how central banks raise taxes without congressional approval).
It won't take alien invasions, it won't take world wars using nukes. It will simply be humans living day to day, consuming and altering everything they cross paths with.
Don't worry, we're in the middle of a massive culture war at the moment, so there's absolutely no chance we can take steps to stop it unless we find a way to bury MAGA for good
Release the Epstein files. The Nazi billionaires are doing a perfect job getting everyone to fight one another instead of them while they rob us all blind
As an Australian, I am shitfucked....
Time to build a robot to look after the dog when I'm gone...
The best time to start building your own Thunderdome was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
A SMALL price to Pay to have REALLY Expensive Oil!
-World Leaders!
Went to a concert here in central europe and we endured 45 degrees under the sun, people were fainting and getting naked but they didn’t let us in till after a full hour of late opening.
Once at Brazil we had 52°C
Yeah, some colleagues from India expressed their concern last week, because they heard how hot it was here.
Felt really weird to have that be actual concern and not just them mocking us, because they're used to + equipped for worse temperatures.
I live in sweltering southern Romania
I took a trip to the Carpathians a couple weeks ago to cool down
Saw two bears in 48 hours in the small town I was in
It's over. The bears have the high ground
oh, my friend, i'm sad to say that this planet has been as fucked as a toddler at a republican invite-only soiree for a long time already u.u
Our fate was sealed since the 1960s.
The timeline branch where we avoided this was the one where Nixon was executed for treason. We are, unfortunately, obviously in one of the variations of the world where that did not happen.
(edit: i know he was only sworn in by 1969 and resigned in 1974 but the prerequisites for dragging his sick bastard carcass to justice were supposed to have been laid out in JFK's second term. ... Which also didn't happen in the timeline where we have had the misfortune to find ourselves)
If not for the gulf stream (a constant sea water movement) Europe would be much colder and Northern America much warmer. I wonder if climate warming could potentially stop this gulf stream
This is good news, it shows the laws of nature do apply to humans and scientists like James Hansen etal were right and Physics as we know it applies
but we've chosen to ignore it and it'll get worse and perhaps this answers Fermi's Paradox?
Humanity is the problem (for most humans and for most species) , climate change is the solution, we're literally killing species off so fast it's labeled the sixth mass extinction.
