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.
@zombiecide It's even a bit cold for the growing season in northern europe. Stuff that I grow and see growing seems to be doing ok.
Plenty of rain interspersed with sunny days.
@cohentheblue where I live, Northern Germany, there's plenty of fava beans but they don't expect the beans to ripen but harvest the entire plant to turn it into cow feed, because the growth period is not expected to be long and warm enough to grow pulses or starchy crops for direct human consumption that can compete with those from further South in quality or price :/
(I mean that's better than importing soy, but it's not like people didn't survive on the local crops until recently)
@zombiecide Also, from my experience, anything grown locally doesn't have that trademark odd aftertaste that store bought goods achieve, one way or the other.
Bought potatoes last year, had to peel them extra thick just to get rid of that weird taste - might have been fertilized with pig manure or something.
Frozen carrots? Might as well eat straw.
Store bought beans did seem fine but they definitely weren't produced "further south" than germany. I think they were latvian or lithuanian.
@zombiecide Regarding fava beans: I got by the entire winter making bean soup by using leftover dried beans from previous years, old seed basically. There was only 1.5 2 kg old paper bags of flour so probably much less weight than 3 kg. I soak beans over night and usually use at most 2 big handfuls of beans for 5 litres of soup. The beans are really filling, I can eat double the soup without beans.
Dried beans are nice.
Thomas Fuchs
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CohenTheBlue
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