• VioletteRei
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    810 months ago

    Here, in Quebec (where it’s supposed to be a cold place) we hit 33° Celsius two days in a row. Since one week ago we had 10°C, the electricity cables got stressed too much and one of them broke

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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      410 months ago

      I get an impression that a lot of people in western countries didn’t think that global warming would affect them personally. It was going to be something that happened to people in the Global South that people in countries like Canada and US would watch on TV. Turns out it’s a global problem, and nobody is immune.

      • VioletteRei
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        310 months ago

        Yeah, I also have this impression. Everybody will het hurt by it, I would even say that the majority of the global population already face consequences of it

      • @orclev@lemmy.ml
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        210 months ago

        It’s not that western countries didn’t think they’d be hurt by it, it’s that for a variety of reasons many actively refuse to believe in it (mostly related to oil and coal). A lot of people in the west have been screaming for at least a decade now about how bad things are going to get and that changes need to be made, but an equal number of people have also been shouting them down saying it’s all propaganda and climate change isn’t real. I remember being told with a straight face a decade ago that climate change was all Chinese propaganda designed to ruin the US economy.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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          210 months ago

          Sure, there are still a lot of people who flat out deny that anything is happening, but a lot of people who accept that climate change is real don’t appreciate how severe the problem is. It’s honestly incredibly depressing to watch this all unfold. At this point I have no idea what it’s going to take for people to start treating this as a serious threat to humanity as a whole.

      • VioletteRei
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        310 months ago

        But like here we never had this kind of temperature, nobody is prepared for this, and our house are not prepared too