The Collapse Chronicle July 30
How heat kills, The hottest days in 120,000 years, Extreme heat makes flying harder, Taking the climate killers to court, Firefighters continue battle against 100+ blazes burning in US, India landslides kill dozens, Record flooding submerges North Korea-China border, Starvation spreads in Sudan, What to eat on a burning planet, and more… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Thank you for the links here. The article about Greece vacationers dying from heat exposure and the explanation of human physiology and the vulnerability of our human brain was especially important. I’ve passed it on to my two adult children for their families. I’m a half mile from the Pacific Ocean so our temps are mostly 60sF. Go 20 miles inland it can easily be 90s to 100s. Escaped the Central Valley twenty years ago. This is no joke. So many are vulnerable
I got a kick out of "extreme heat makes flying harder." Oh boo-hoo, what could possibly be worse? "I can't jump an airplane anymore like people used to hail and cab and do my bit to drive the temperature even higher!" How tragic.
Anyways, really interesting stuff. I had my first experience with feeling nauseated in the heat the other week. I got off light with that warning by the sounds of things. So billions of people will die from the heat, then, in concert with the myriad other critical threats now arising on account of our grotesque human overshoot, on account of being, by the numbers, a plague of large primates. Not just a plague, a plague of heretofore unimaginable scale. A plague to eclipse all plagues. Yes, billions are going to die. How else did we think this would resolve? It's not like we don't know what happens under such circumstances, regardless of species, here on planet earth.