It’s selfish I know, but just seeing all people from the North complaining about how horribly hot it is right now makes me quite scared of how things will be looking down south later in the year. I’m enjoying my ~15º C right now but it can get stupidly hot where I live in the summer and I’m really not looking forward to seeing shopping mall Santa Clauses melting into puddles come Christmas.
There’s very little official talk of preparing for the summer here and I bet most people will just become surprised airfried pikachu if we also get our heat records.
There are lots of things we can still do even at a local level. In this specific case even just providing relief from the heat waves with water, shades and in some cases air conditioning can literally save lives. The issue is that liberals think only in terms of today’s news cycles and so in the case of my local government there is no measure being taken now to prevent heatstroke deaths in 6 months.
Shit is bad, and it’s no doubt gonna get worse, but if we embrace defeatism and refuse to act even locally it’s just gonna get worse even faster. We’re not even some deprived starving city/country, we have the resources to act. All that remains is to think in the long term and force the government to do it or implement something ourselves. Bet it would suck to be a mayor in a stuffy suit if the AC mysteriously breaks in a 40° day.
If you personally can’t do much it’s completely fine, but don’t encourage others who can to just lie down and die too.