This Might Be the Climate Wake-Up Call We’ve Been Waiting For

https://newrepublic.com/article/198044/heat-waves-us-europe-vacation-climate-change-wake-up-call

by thenewrepublic

8 comments

  1. It can be challenging to connect climate change to people’s everyday lives. But there’s nothing abstract about heat waves and vanishing beaches.

    >Near-perfect weather is part of what makes a summer paradise, and in sweltering heat, even the cultural attractions aren’t quite as inviting. For events such as the Avignon Festival, a destination for theater fans in southern France, temperatures surpassing 100 degrees are becoming “an existential threat.” “But Spain,” the *Times* added, “has become the least fun in the sun destination.” Temperatures in some southern locales there have reached 115 degrees lately, and efforts to escape the heat by going to the beach are complicated by the fact that erosion and coastal flooding are, in some places, devouring tens of thousands of square miles of sand.

  3. Ive seen more denail online than ever, but partially bots, and lots of online informed folks 

    *denial. I have no idea how I butchered it that bad 

  5. lol. Just lol.

    Just two news from today:

    – the Bavarian State Government has decided to abolish climate reporting, Trump style because bad bad ‘bureuacracy’

    Not Europe, but :

    [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/brazil-passes-devastation-bill-that-drastically-weakens-environmental-law](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/brazil-passes-devastation-bill-that-drastically-weakens-environmental-law)

    And this is not a Bolsonaro government we’re talking about.

    If you think there will be any wake up call as long as elites and a good part of populations can live their destructive lifesytle you’re hopelessly naive. This so called journalism is part of the problem. They can’t see that their liberal, pro capitalist status quo mindest is a receipt for doom as well-

  6. The heat domes in the southwest US are migratory this year.

  7. I think the actual wake up call is going to have to be incredibly violent and widespread.

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