DivineOrOtherwiseVille
From Jack Healy writing in the New York Times:
From Jack Healy writing in the New York Times:
Patients with heat stroke and burns from the asphalt are swamping hospitals. Air-conditioners are breaking down at homeless shelters. The medical examiner’s office is deploying trailer-sized coolers to store bodies, for the first time since the early days of Covid.
For 31 straight days — from the last day of June through Sunday, the second-to-last day of July — Phoenix has hit at least 110 degrees, not merely breaking its 18-day record in 1974, but setting a significant new one. The city smashed through another record last week, racking up the most 115-degree days ever in a calendar year, part of a global heat wave that made July Earth’s hottest month on record.
This has been Phoenix’s July in hell — an entire month of merciless heat that has ground down people’s health and patience in the city of 1.6 million, while also straining a regionwide campaign to protect homeless people and older residents who are most vulnerable...
The thing is, this July is only the first circle, as it were.
And we're almost certain to keep on moving on through said hell circles for some time, if not forever.
Why?
1) Because all those COP conferences on climate change that the pro-media loves to trumpet are actually fossil fuel lobby fests...2) Because, as Norm Farrell so aptly notes, the pro-media is not willing to expend any air, hot or otherwise, on the real dangers to human existence that are already upon us...3) Because there are big money-backed forces working night and day to strangle any and all meaningful mitigation strategies in the name of spewing even more carbon into the air indefinitely...
Quite honestly, I'm not sure even Dante could have imagined the mess that we've gotten ourselves into.
And I, for one, do not think we can wait for some poet named Virgil to magically arrive to get us out of it.
OK?
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5 comments:
Global News still flies a chopper around the city for three hours a day taking pics and selling ads. It's beyond stupid.
Well no one is going to come and "help" us. This is one of those situations where your parental unit told you, you got yourself into this so get yourself out of it. Unfortunately when you're stuck in a fire, you don't get out, you die. There are no fire fighters for this problem. A few trucks are going to be off the road though, Yellow Trucking in the U.S.A. has declared bankruptcy. they were the fifth largest trucking company in the U.S.A.
There are very few politicians who are willing to take on the oil/gas corporations and their side kicks. None of this wealth has really done much for the working women and men in the world. They've gotten poorer, while the .01% got richer and the rest of us got poorer.
Sadly, there are too few that will do anything to change. We have been marketed a way of life that is killing us.
More economic growth is not needed.
Back in 2006, Warren Buffet said “there’s class warfare, alright, but it’s my class, the rich class that is making war, and we are winning”.
It’s about time we take on this war against us unlike the namby-pamby way all governments are taking on the supposed war against climate change. DJF
BUFFET was correct. Just look at all the lobbying groups around the world trying to remove enviornmental laws and best practises. Look at all the tax breaks corporations get. Gives them a lot of money, but when there is talk of a dental program for kids or a raise in welfare rates for families and the disabled, the country can't afford it.
The State of Texas is attempting to remove regulations which enable workers to take a 10 min. break to drink water and get some shade. Other states are talking about it. We are also disposable. Human are just another tool in an effort to make more and more money,
Just the waste of resources to build 20K sq. ft. houses and mega yachts. Its a waste of resources and pollutes the earth.
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