Prolonged power outages during heat waves will kill thousands of people and we are not ready. The book, Ministry for the Future, begins exactly this way and with such vivid, gruesome imagery that I haven't been able to shake the dread each time I consider the real life scenario.
#climatecrisis #heatwave #HeatEmergency #powergrid
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๐ฅ๐ก๏ธ Extreme heat waves are putting homeless lives at risk! ๐ Street medicine teams are searching for those in need to deliver life-saving IV hydration. ๐ง Help spread awareness and support these critical efforts. ๐ #ExtremeHeat #HomelessHealth #HeatWave #HeatEmergency
๐ https://apnews.com/article/extreme-heat-homeless-health-care-c57bbafdc936a36248be593df9036f13
As temperatures reach triple digits in metro Phoenix, heat illness is especially deadly for people who live outside under the broiling desert sun. Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the 645 people who died last year from heat-related causes in Arizona's Maricopa County. A Phoenix health care nonprofit has begun a new program this year providing intravenous saline drips to dehydrated homeless people. Circle the City's street medicine team goes where they are โ by a major freeway overpass, alongside dry riverbeds, at a city park and near the city's canals.
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