Gregory's Server@Elektrotier @susankayequinn
This feels like solving poverty by declaring the poverty line to be lower
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Let me just look up the English word "facetious", which I am not familiar with. @susankayequinn @Elektrotier As I already wrote above, I made a bad, sarcastic joke ;-) I am also aware of that most of the people do not want to be aware of what is really going on with regard to our climate.  Thanks a lot ;-) In German "facetious" means "scherzhaft", "witzig", "drollig" or "albern". Just throw that peace of information away ;-) Yes. I just made a bad, sarcastic joke about the climate crisis. I apologize. The situation with regard to poverty seems to be much worse in the US compared to the situation like here in Germany. Thus, poor people in the US can protect themselves less effective from heat and wet bulb temperatures than in Germany, I guess. @Elektrotier certainly poverty is a big factor when it comes to vulnerability to heat, but so is infrastructure and social cohesion. Canada is very vulnerable to sudden extreme heat because they never have that normally, so they don't have AC or experience in dealing with heat. Meanwhile, India has tight social structures that means the most vulnerable--the elderly--often get looked after more than, say, in France. But it's all going to get worse. Much worse. |
@RnDanger I'm sure that @Elektrotier was being facetious. But it's exactly the approach that's taken by anyone trying to hide what's happening so people will doing nothing about it.