cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66695030
Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extreme-heat-event-london-cancelled-b3001379.html
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If it makes anyone feel better, the Heat Death of the Universe will solve this issue permanently.
How could anyone have predicted that though
If the event couldn’t be cancelled that way, no one would need it!
And so endeth the lesson
Sooner or later the UK will discover air conditioners.
and make it worse. That reaction is literally called Implacactory Denial
Much research has focused on how we intellectually distance ourselves from the unpleasant realities happening around us. What requires greater attention is how we may engage in climate denial by seeking out spaces of sensory comfort and using them to shield ourselves as the world unravels outside our window.
Denial, thought of in this way, is entirely sensible. My colleagues and I asked residents around the Western Sydney suburb of Penrith – famously the hottest place on Earth during the Black Summer of 2019-20 – about their experiences during heatwave conditions. Unsurprisingly, sensory denial is central to how they cope with extremes – primarily by using air conditioning.
I wonder what is worse for the environment.
- increased carbon emissions
- millions of rotting corpses
