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 🇦🇹🇩🇪4d ago
@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
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 threadRobert Kist 🇦🇹🇩🇪
@thomasfuchs once this happens we're fucked anyway, I guess
Jun 24 at 8:23pmWeb