A severe heatwave is ongoing in Europe. Temperature records broken in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain.
On 11 July 2023, the Land Surface Temperature (LST) in some areas of Extremadura (Spain) exceeded 60°C, as highlighted in this data visualisation derived from measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) instrument. The ongoing heatwave in Spain this week is resulting in a total of 13 autonomous communities, being at extreme risk (red alert), significant risk (orange alert), and risk (yellow alert) due to maximum temperatures that, in some cases, will exceed 40°C and reach a maximum of 43°C.
For reference, “in areas where vegetation is dense, the land surface temperature never rises above 35°C. The hottest land surface temperatures on Earth are in plant-free desert landscapes.”
The world is burning but no one gives a shit… i don’t think anyone will until literally their house is on fire.
The parasite class doesn’t really do much though. We hold the whips that enslave ourselves.
We would do so well if just 25% of the population were to:
- Quit unethical jobs as soon as reasonable.
- Refuse to buy from unethical companies within reason.
- Spread awareness about our careers corruption
- Spread awareness about corruption in general
- Force our career to modernise (surprisingly the status quo also impacts our workplace; If we modernise too fast, the parasites control weakens) .
I missread your comment and cant delete my reply… haha… oops
As if the people with the Power (mainly from money) haven’t adjusted the context in which we live so that:
- Most people don’t have the information (notice how so many unethical companies hide behind brands and Libel Legislation is used to stop news of malpractices).
- Most don’t have the option to drop a job out of principle (born into a World were ALL Land already has owners and not being scions of the Owner Class, most of us are born to work for the Owners - as we are born not owning the means of production - to then pay the Owners for a roof over our heads - as we are born not owning our home or land for it - and for food in our tables - as we are born not owning the land in which to grow our own food).
- Most are de facto powerless and convinced there is nothing they can do to chance things, often already aware of the corruption whilst excusing their own innaction about it with “they’re all like that” and “there’s nothing I can do to change it”.
I would go as far as saying that the interiorization by many of “solutions” of the “lets go after the symptoms of the problems of the system” rather than “lets change the system” like that which you are suggesting, is a massive victory for those who gain the most from the Current System: whilst people fight on a case by case basis to fix individual results of underlying systemic flaws - which are constantly producing new such problematic results, like a disease that causes the same symptoms again and again if you don’t cure it and only take pills to reduce the symptoms - they’re actually not fixing the foundational flaws in the system.
I see tons of this misguided behaviour in the “modern” Left: I call it the “The car is fine, it only needs a few screw thightenned” misguided pseudo-leftist politics.
Where does ‘unethical’ start? I used to translate marketing copy and I was miserable because it felt so dishonest. Now I translated user manuals instead, but I’m still embedded in the same consumerist system. It’s difficult. I would like to grow edible mushrooms instead but need to buy land for that, so I keep feeding the bullshit industry in the meantime. Or I would prefer to translate only for worker owned companies, but there are not enough of those.
Not even then sometimes. In Germany, there was a small village buried under a mudslide from a flashflood that was a direct consequence of extreme weather patterns created by climate change. That same village overwhelmingly voted for conservative politicians that don’t care about doing anything about climate change the very next year.
For a while now, the question of democracy has been haunting the climate change issue. In the west, at least, it has shown itself ill-suited to the task of handling climate change. Of course, seriously proposing older forms of government would be dangerous and perhaps even insane. But the tension is there, and when we look back on all of this, democracy, or the form we have, is likely not going to look good.
Any form of government with idiots at the helm will fail. With power at the helm and feebleness of the people defining the grandeur of the fail.
I.e. I want to say: the form of government doesnt matter. Just defines the imaginary friction for the government to do things and stuff.
Democracy just means the number of people getting kickbacks is a number above 1. The higher the number the more democratic.
The trick is to make it so that the people who profit from fixing climate change are big enough to be in the group that gets kickbacks.
As evil as Nixon was he wasn’t an idiot. You can get environmental rules passed as long as someone is getting their palm’s greased.
I’ve spent last August sitting in the shade listening to the music from the village parties mixed with the sound of the airplane engines flying over a nearby forest fire. It was bizarre. But then, what is one to do really? People who live around here aren’t really the ones to blame. Can’t really blame them for still wanting to have their village party. While I, who does give a shit, do little more than eating local and avoiding consumerism. Eating the rich might me more efficient, but there’s none around here, we just have grapes and potato.
The people with the real power to do anything are the people who will suffer the least. We’re going off the rails on a crazy train.
‘Crazy train’ describes well the feeling I had last summer. Like the ‘this is fine’ meme. And this summer will be the same. You hide, keep your garden watered, and hope the fires won’t get you this year. All while the officials keep advising to plant more Eucalyptus for profit and organic matter is blamed for the problem and burned for biofuel or on people’s fields - instead of reincorporated into the landscape as it should be. Here in Portugal, for animal bedding, most buy straw bales from the overheated because desertified Extremadura instead of cutting the Giesta (broom) as people used to do. Why are the Spanish straw bales cheaper? Because fossil fuels and the big scale agriculture attached to them create a fake price for the straw (I’m not an economist and don’t know the right terms, but it’s like the prices for fossil fuels and their derivates don’t contain the environmental damage caused by its use). And the Giestais, unused, grow and spread the wildfires.
Northern India saw intense heatwaves just a few weeks back and now is being drowned. Indians are used to heatwaves and floods, but this year the intensity and scale both are frightening.
That’s climate change to a tee, it’s more the usual pattern but taken to the extreme, and it’s only going to get worse each year.
Yyyyep. We’ve never been prepared for our normal weather here for whatever reason, and I simply can’t wait for winters to worsen too, now that it’s very visibly tipped over the edge. /s
I’d rather die in heat than cold, which insinuates it’s definitely going to be the latter.
Your comment signals lighting government official’s houses on fire nonstop so they start doing something
When the crops are dead and the water dried up. Then people will start to take notice. But by then, it’s already too late.
Both of those progressing nicely in Spain, and the result was… a rise of the right, that has doubled down on destroying the aquifers in the south, the most affected region.
So the worse things become, the more people turn a blind eye to the issue.
The world is 70% water.
Edit.
Another fact, water is wet.
Water is not going to dry up… What a weird comment, climate change means more rain, not less
Stupidest fucking comment I’ve ever read in my life. Water doesn’t dry up? Have you never seen a dry river bed? Or how about salt flats?
This is why we are doomed to die to climate change. People like you who are completely unwilling to even begin to understand the thing they refuse to accept.
Lol, you obviously don’t read much then.
Obviously existing agriculture uses too much water, which is why there are alternatives such as CEA…
I work in a sector that is mitigating climate change, so I’d be interested to know what you’re doing about it, other than stealing oxygen.
Talking about surface temperature is pretty misleading.
Ah, I see you’re one of these people that will dismiss such claim because of “surface temperature”. Well, as someone that:
- currently lives in an area with a long-lasting heatwave
- can’t levitate above the ground
- need to breath air
I can tell you that surface temperature, even if they make “bigger numbers”, are extremely relevant to the degradation of the situation, no matter how misleading you think it is. The ground didn’t “suddenly” get hotter with everything else staying the same; and everything getting hotter also have dire consequences. It’s just a metric, it might not be the best one, but people should stop dismissing these, because it’s by having a hot frying pan that the content gets cooked.
Nope, not at all. You completely misunderstood my point.
I’m not saying the ground suddenly got hotter and everything else stayed the same. In this case, it’s just a metric that’s quoted because it has a misleading high value especially by people who are just scrolling through.
It’s click bait.
But we don’t live directly on top of the ground; we live 5 or 6 feet above the ground, and thus air temperature is much more important to understanding heat impacts to human health and well-being.
Here’s an article talking about the types of temperature measurements. If LST is high, odds are air temperature will be high to, and air temp is much more relevant to our life as a human, whether we’re going to die, and easy to compare to how hot it is locally.
Yeah, it’s confusing and unhelpful. People should standardize on reporting air temperature unless there’s a very specific and compelling reason not to.
If it’s explicitly and specifically noted like in this post, it’s fine. It even names airtemps further down.
It’s not fine if it’s what’s used in the title. It’s fine to include it as part of the post, but only including the surface temp in the title is misleading.
I know this is a world community but I’m just going to throw the conversion out there for anyone who needs it to understand how hot that is, that is 140F.
I’m on vacation in a place that is regularly 20c on summer, it’s 35c right now. Real sad since I wanted to escape the 40c city
