A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for a new climate reality. A concrete jungle such as Paris, or any French city center, is a built environment conceived for the far more temperate climate of a preindustrial world
Climate indifference and the denialism currently in power in Washington are showing up in more diluted forms in Europe. We have seen it during these days of record-breaking temperatures.
Weather extremes are not natural. They are climate disasters. They the kind of catastrophes that Big Oil companies predicted their fossil fuel products would cause—at the same time that they were orchestrating fraudulent campaigns of climate denial..
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