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Yeah but there are a lot of shitty old buildings with shitty old wiring here.

Using the hot water tap in my kitchen nearly set my building on fire last year when the mini boiler under the sink shorted out after having melted all the insulation around the wires leading to it. That oily fishy smell of wires burning still haunts me.

A single hot day isn’t a heatwave tho.

Also I was primary school aged at that time, so there is every possibility the adults around me were using hyperbole I wasn’t picking up on.

This is Britain, we should get 5 days of sunshine a year and rain or overcast for the rest.

I feel like you’ve been out of the country for the last decade. We regularly get multiple weeks over 30c in London every summer now and the seasons have been messed up for much longer than that.

The 25c being called a heatwave thing is something I remember from the early 90’s.

Have you seen Clerks? It’s an older Kevin Smith film and there’s a lot of memorable lines in it, one that’s stuck with me though is “shit or get off the pot”, also “salsa shark” but that’s unrelated as I’m not dipping tortilla chips right now.

I’ve done and still do what I can activism wise, my gripe has been with people being ignorant to the devestating climate collapse and resource depletion in our near future, and trying to mitigate the suffering by warning people against having kids.

I support activism and think if people have identified a ‘thing that needs to be done’ they should either do it, or stop endlessly talking about how someone else should.

Yeah, it’s hellish in London, especially closer to the river and other low elevation areas. The humidity is like living in a sauna.

Summers regularly hit the mid 30’s now though. Sunday is forecast as 31c with almost a week over 30 ahead, and it’s still technically spring.

I swear I remember 25c being rare and called a heatwave when I was a kid, I miss that.

Lmao, we’re not surviving this.

I know personally that I’m unlikely to survive another year of my flat being over 40c inside with 90%+ humidity.

Even if I buy an air conditioner and can somehow afford to run it, the building I’m in has no insulation and had mice so many times there’s no way of properly sealing off flats from each other.

This timeline needs more vigilantes since the corrupt systems only work to protect the ruling class, despite their crimes.

If you’re not going to do it, don’t expect anyone else to. Go be a hero or stop praying for miracles.

We could lessen the impact of future warming if we cut our use of oil

Feedback loops are already in motion. Stopping all fossil fuel use now won’t make the clathrate gun go off less as it isn’t going to reduce the heat already stored in our oceans to stop the icecaps melting.

There’s a blue ocean event predicted for later this year too, so it won’t be long now till the ocean is so hot and acidic that the phytoplankton which produce 50 to 80% of earths oxygen will start dieing en masse.

If you really want to feel the existential dread though, go look up the amount of fresh water reserves we have left globally, and then do the same for arable land.

The next 25 years are going to see the deaths of billions upon billions to droughts and famines, while the climate collapses around us. And short of divine intervention rewriting the laws of physics, there is absolutely nothing we can do.