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 threadgekko3k4d ago

@thomasfuchs

Yeah, if the rooms got no AC, close it.
It's no 'catastrophe' though, just one week summer heat. Next week down to 20°C. Relax and enjoy.

Show threadEsteban Küber 
@gekko3k @thomasfuchs 40 people drowned in France trying to cool down. Even wealthy people have no AC in their houses. "Relax and enjoy" is a tone deaf thing to say people going through a weather emergency. People are dying of heatstroke.
Jun 25 at 12:13amWeb
Show threadThomas Fuchs4d ago

@ekuber I apologize for these awful replyguys under my posts.

Wishing Mastodon had better controls for this.