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.

@thomasfuchs not only did we have 50+ years to prepare, we've also had that time to come up with serious solutions. We didn't. Because money.
@misjavanlaatum @thomasfuchs Money making sure nothing would be done, this all falls back to the big petrochemical industries who pumped money into politics for decades so they could keep pumping oil.
@nini @thomasfuchs absolutely true.