A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —

"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"
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You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).

Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”

I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.

It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.

And we’re being told we can adapt.

I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.

It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.

It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither

#Arizona #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Resistance Grows to Morality Police in Iran.

"I discreetly capture a photo of a woman officer. The man notices me and calls on his colleague to seize my phone.

I calmly say that I’m a lawyer. I remind the officer that conducting a search without a warrant would have serious repercussions. I say that he has no authority to touch me or my phone.

"Why were you taking pictures of us?"

"Have you done something wrong that you fear being monitored?"

No response.

#Iran

https://iranwire.com/en/features/118813-is-it-war-morality-police-are-out-in-force-in-tehran/

One of my colleagues in the UK is taking the GMC to court in an attempt to hold them to account for their inaction on registered doctors that spread vaccine falsehoods - if anyone wishes to donate, the link is here:

https://actions.goodlawproject.org/gmc

@gyamey - wonder if you might be able to publicise 🙏

#antivax #antivaxxers #MedMastodon #vaccines