Thomas Fuchs4d ago

Europe had at least 30 years to prepare for this (if I’m generous), really it’s more like 50+.

Politics, leaders and society failed.

Like in Austria (where I’m from) they’re not closing schools despite it reaching up to 40°C indoors because they don’t have any law for this case.

Torturing children and teachers instead of finally acknowledging that there’s an ongoing deadly emergency.

Pretending that everything is fine instead of finally acting to protect life.

A true boiling frog experiment.

Show threadRobert Kist 🇦🇹🇩🇪
@thomasfuchs there'll be a lot of hand wringing how old people die in the heat and some people may grudgingly admit that maybe, just maybe climate change could be loosely related to whatever is going on, but as it cools in autumn all of this will be largely forgotten... and we'll be doomed to repeat the whole thing next year
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Show threadThomas Fuchs4d ago
@kwramm perhaps but this will very soon start to affect agriculture and possibly there will be water rationing, it’s going to get to a point where people won’t be able to ignore it
Show threadeclexic4d ago
@thomasfuchs @kwramm I think you under estimate how committed people are to affirming their biases. There are a notable number of people who claimed COVID was a hoax as their O2 sat was so low they were barely conscious, hours before dying.
Show threadRobert Kist 🇦🇹🇩🇪4d ago
@theeclecticdyslexic @thomasfuchs nah, not my worldview. People can change their minds when presented with information. It's things like greed or social embarrassment why they stick with the lie. Tons of Brexiteers knew this thing is wrong, and lots admit it now. A few will say "it's implemented wrong". People aren't that stupid. But they're easily misled and/or selfish.
Show threadeclexic4d ago

@kwramm @thomasfuchs I think it's partly embarrassment, but I think it's also a coping mechanism.

Many people would prefer to believe they had no hand in any of this. Believing such requires they believe they have no hand in fixing it though. Admitting otherwise, given the culture of individualism, places them as the "bad guy" in their narrative.

There is a pretty straight forward mapping from the various climate change related obstructionist positions to the Kübler-Ross stages of grief, IMO.

Show threadRobert Kist 🇦🇹🇩🇪4d ago
@thomasfuchs once this happens we're fucked anyway, I guess