Summer: the season of danger, heat, fire and misery
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone." Rebecca Solnit
"Once, across much of the the world’s temperate zones, we looked forward to summer as a time of delights, from summer’s bounty of fruits, long days, warmth, school holidays, activities like camping and swimming, travel and adventure. Now many of us dread it."
"Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys loss. An estimated 20,000 are said to have died in the extreme heat in Europe earlier this year, and heat is climate change’s quiet killer, compared to the dramatic violence of death by fire or flood. In eastern Washington, 600 homes have just burned down, and in both Europe and North America, firefighters have died in the effort to contain the climate-fueled firestorms."
"We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or
... show moreSummer: the season of danger, heat, fire and misery
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone." Rebecca Solnit
"Once, across much of the the world’s temperate zones, we looked forward to summer as a time of delights, from summer’s bounty of fruits, long days, warmth, school holidays, activities like camping and swimming, travel and adventure. Now many of us dread it."
"Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys loss. An estimated 20,000 are said to have died in the extreme heat in Europe earlier this year, and heat is climate change’s quiet killer, compared to the dramatic violence of death by fire or flood. In eastern Washington, 600 homes have just burned down, and in both Europe and North America, firefighters have died in the effort to contain the climate-fueled firestorms."
"We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us." >>
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