Everyone should have air conditioning.
But if we don’t dismantle fossil capital and phase out coal, oil, and gas, whatever our politics, we will just keep getting hotter and hotter, and all the a/c in the world won’t enable you to function in society or have enough food to eat.
Every American that says 36°c in the UK “isn’t even hot” should be forced to spend 72 hours in a UK south facing top floor flat with no air conditioning
This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!
Climate breakdown is here. We must double down on efforts to decarbonise but that's not enough.
We need new rights at work to protect us from climate danger - failing to act now will endanger workers' lives and cost our health service dearly.
Sending reporters to do heatwave stories to camera at the beach is a such a lazy bit of consent manufacturing. 35C does not equal the beach. Do the report on a building site where people are on the verge of passing out. Do it from a hospital ward.
There is a record-breaking heat wave in Europe and hundreds are dying.
There is drought all across America and farmers are going out of business. Yet, Trump thinks climate change is a “hoax” and cuts funding for sustainable energy.
Insane. He is threatening the very future of our planet.
Keir Starmer choked up with tears in his resignation speech - he didn't shed any for the 73,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Israel in Gaza while providing diplomatic cover and material support for their killers