This is a graph showing official number of deaths in Germany for every day since 2020. The red line is for 2026 and the big spike is the recent heatwave. The three days with the most deaths since at least 2020 have all happened just two weeks ago.
This is a graph showing official number of deaths in Germany for every day since 2020. The red line is for 2026 and the big spike is the recent heatwave. The three days with the most deaths since at least 2020 have all happened just two weeks ago.
Protest. Vote. Do what you can to make changes in your own life - and talk about them.
The individual doesn’t make that big a difference on their own, but by getting the word out, an individual also moves the dial on what is normal and what is acceptable. Topical: there’s a lot of talk about air conditioning now due to the heat waves. Among my friends I quite strenuously objected to people using aircon when, generally, we can make do with passive approaches and fans. (Most people in my country keep the windows open in a heatwave even when it’s hotter outside - that’s how useless we are as a country). Someone else also asked if I was thinking about getting aircon, and I said I wouldn’t do it unless I had solar panels. These kinds of conversations don’t convince anyone who thinks “drill baby drill” to give up flights, meat and comforts like A/C but they still matter, because a person’s opinions are influenced by everything they hear.
I’m not vegetarian, but I’ll talk to anyone about how I consciously eat significantly less meat than I used to for mainly environmental reasons and it’s the same thing.
what the fuck? why do they do that?
Because the vast majority of the time, opening a window lets in a breeze which is cooling. But now the climate is hotter and you need a fan.
I don’t get it. the point was, they do that even when it’s hotter outside. I’m probably missing something, but there was another post recently where OP was furious that they couldn’t keep the window open, and I didn’t get that either.
It’s not smart, but it does make sense, because it’s usually the right thing to do in warm weather.
An important part of how you perceive the temperature is humidity. And since humans cool down by sweating, a human in an enclosed space will quickly raise the humidity to a point where if feels noticeably hotter, especially if they remain mostly stationary. So, opening a window does bring relief, even if the air outside is hotter.
Have you seen how many flights Infantino took during the World Cup?
It doesn’t matter what you or those around you do. Get an AC, eat meat, burn plastic in your garden or glue yourself to a street. As long as the rich, powerful and governments don’t care it’s only making your own life more difficult.
Billions of ordinary humans still consume much more fossil fuels and meat than the super rich. And that consumption is giving unsustainable industries even more money for lobbying and to stay profitable.
This sense of futility is whats keeping their business model alive as long as possible. It’s what’s giving them the largest benefit they could possibly hope for. Don’t do their lobbying work for them.
If there were no billionaires, our unsustainable consumption would still drive climate change, just a bit slower. Just pointing at them isn’t sufficient. We need political and individual action.
The argument also kinda sounds like “well if there are people that literally kill thousands of people, then me hurting a few people in my life doesn’t make much of a difference.” Which is a quite silly.
Sustainable technologies like public transport, EVs and meat alternatives also need demand to grow, to become normalized, widely accessible and cheaper through scaling. Early adopters have a much larger effect on the overall trajectory than late adopters.
If progressive people just do what’s practicable to have a positive impact where they can, that has a large effect. And many already do. We need more of that.
Bullshit. There are more of us than there are Infantinos.
Compare how many flights Infantino took (27) to how many additional flights were laid on so that football fans could see world cup games (thousands*). Fuck off with this shitty excuse. If you were a football fan and you said, “I’m not going to travel because of the environmental cost” your action and your voice, together with the voices of others, could easily outweigh all of Infantino’s flying. But no, you want to do the opposite: you want to tell everyone to be worse, to use your voice for evil.
The least you can do, if through some mental defect you want your own actions to contribute to death and destruction, is to shut up about it.
You’re too stupid to understand an example. I’m out
I understand your example, that’s why I was able to talk about it competently. I disagree with your conclusion.
I’m glad you’ll be stopping the spread of your poisonous doomerism. Please keep that up.