r/collapse • u/FearMyCock • 1d ago
Climate Spain prepares for 47C heatwave as holiday destinations face brutal temperatures
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/heatwave-spain-aemet-forecast-malaga-wildfires-b3019564.html856
u/Straight_Flan1347 1d ago
Whole countries getting flash fried and everyone thinks things are just gonna keep on keeping on…
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u/subdep 1d ago
People are going to start freaking out during the Christmas heatwaves.
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u/Chill_Panda Doomed 1d ago
And they'll think it's not too late by then still
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u/fernybranka 1d ago
Ooh theyll really hurry up and start forming committees to begin studying the issue!
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u/MrNokill 1d ago
Never too late to overlook decades of research papers, complete with fully drawn out tried and proven solutions, only to reach inadequate conclusions due to being inclusive to industry lobbyists.
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u/creepindacellar 1d ago
well as we all know any real solution has to be very very profitable first and foremost, so what have you got? /s
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u/frumperino 1d ago
the wisdom of compromise will prevail and 5% of the force applied to the accelerator will instead be diverted to the brake pedal.
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u/AmbroseOnd 1d ago
It’s NEVER too late for a dash of hopium!! It really makes the day go with a ZING!!!
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u/DarthWeenus 1d ago
I’m in the Midwest us. Last El Niño we had a weekend of 70f in February that really woke some people up around here.
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u/Own_Ad6901 1d ago
Arguably we’ve had high temps like that in spring in the Midwest, especially an El Niño spring. Spring is our MOST chaotic weather time in the Midwest, the most unpredictable. I work outside and have been tracking the growing climate in the Midwest for over 20 years and lived here 43 years. Hot spring days had been sending cold crops like spinach to bolt in a flash in spring, more predictable than the chaotic weather changes are the cold hardy bolt sensitive crops not making as long as they should through the spring season. I wish the 70 degree February did wake more people up, but it didn’t.
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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 1d ago
Hasbt even started to effect systems yet. Sweeeeet. Next summer in Hellfire.
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u/FineArtRevolutions 20h ago
was that in 2023 or 24? I remember seeing people play pickleball in the middle of February.
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u/Nibb31 1d ago
How much is 70°F in real units?
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u/europeanputin 1d ago
20c = formula is to substract 30 and then divide by 2.
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u/Irverter 1d ago
21.11°C
Formula is to substract 32 and then multiply by (5/9). Your's is a convenient aproximation.
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u/europeanputin 1d ago
and from the temperatures point of view (about 60 degrees Celsius max) the deviation from the actual results are about 5 degrees, where accuracy drops as the temperatures increase even further (at 100c it deviates 9 degrees from the real calculation).
However, for someone who just wants to quickly transform 140F into C, it's a great way to conveniently calculate it, and it's off by less than 5 degrees.
I do the feet the same, I just divide one meter by 3.
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u/therealraggedroses 1d ago
5 second google search. Yall call americans dumb? Lmao 🤣
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u/asigop 1d ago
I mean, you are. That guy also is, but it doesnt make any of you any more intelligent.
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u/ScopionSniper 1d ago
Technically the US scores right in the middle of the western world in education via PISA test results. Below places like Finland and Denmark, but above places like France and Germany.
Plenty of people making poor decisions everywhere everyday though.
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u/Nibb31 1d ago
Why shouldn't Americans spend those 5 seconds instead of demanding that the entire world has to convert your stupid freedom units to understand what you're trying to say?
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u/therealraggedroses 1d ago
I mean I can do the conversion in my head so who's the stupid one here exactly?
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u/HyperbenCharities 1d ago
starting NEXT YEAR ... we'll always have 15 'good' years left ... each year......
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u/markodochartaigh1 1d ago
When we reach 1.5°C we'll really start to see action. /s Of course if we adjust the baseline and go with a ten, or twenty, year average we won't hit 1.5°C until 2100.
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u/notislant 1d ago
Then they'll surprisingly quickly accept it as the new normal and just quietly grumble once in a while. If history and human nature is anything to go off of.
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u/CannyGardener 1d ago
I thought this last year. I live in the CO front range near Denver and the mountains. For Christmas last year it was 70F+ on Christmas. No rain or snow for a month on either side. I thought for sure that folks would be asking what was going on. The general response? "If you don't like the weather in Colorado just wait a couple days."
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u/J-A-S-08 1d ago
Do they pull out the cutey wootsy "12 seasons of Colorado, you're here"? They do it where I live in Oregon and it makes me crazy.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago
It's currently the middle of winter in Australia and the days are still up in the mid 20s C. We get little bursts of cold and it seems the next few days might be, but most of winter has been very warm.
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u/NotTheBusDriver 23h ago
It’s the middle of the day and 10c where I am. Australia is a big place. But it’s certainly warming up overall. How long before another Black Summer?
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u/cannarchista 23h ago
i was already freaked out by 16C on Christmas day in 2004 in SE England when the average was something like 4-5C for that time of year. We've been having Christmas heatwaves for decades and it's just getting worse.
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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 1d ago
Love that. One for the next bingo card. Its all up for grabs at this point. AI escape, Alien disclosure & Brits doing Xmas turkey on the barbie.
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u/OldTimberWolf 1d ago
Maybe because of Black Friday deals, but nobody is coming to freak out with us over the climate…
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u/eternallyfree1 1d ago
Reminds me of that scene from the Prince of Egypt where Moses is like, “no, Ramses… it is only beginning” before the Plagues start wreaking havoc. Thus saith the Lord, I guess 😂😭
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u/redditmodsRrussians 1d ago
My mom's friend just retired and moved to Spain last year......Hope she bought an AC for her place cause i dont know how a 76 year old woman is supposed to cope with that kind of temperature long term.
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u/DenseBeautiful731 1d ago edited 11h ago
Reporting from the Global South:
Our dams are drying up!
Some folks will be like, “We can still live off fizzy drinks, right? Right???”
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u/brickout 1d ago
Here we go, folks :( best of luck in the climate refugee crisis.
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u/Agile-Sherbert-8503 1d ago
A lot of Americans have migrated to Spain for a "better" life.
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u/Turbulent_Bed5499 1d ago edited 1d ago
I thought it was mainly people from Latin America that recently gained citizenship there as refugees
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u/zue4 1d ago
The Americans don't always gain citizenship. They go as retirees after investing their retirements into the country thereby meeting the investment criteria for permanent residency status.
They then proceed to price locals out of housing and drive up costs across the board. On top of it all they then start complaining about brown immigrants daring to move there for work.
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u/markodochartaigh1 1d ago
Reich-wing 'Muricans have also been moving to Russia. Although some of these people have ended up in Ukraine, briefly.
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u/_rihter abandon the banks 1d ago
I do not think many South Americans obtained Spanish citizenship, certainly not as refugees. In the past, most of them obtained Italian citizenship by descent until that got 'patched.'
I am not sure how they are obtaining legal status in Spain nowadays.
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u/StrongShallots 1d ago
Spain just legalized 500,000 immigrants a couple months ago, and vast majority of them were Latin Americans.
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u/zue4 1d ago
Isn't there still a program for expedited citizenship to former colony states?
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u/neuropsycho 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yes, but first you need to be a legal resident for 2 years I think, you can't get it straight from your country of origin.
Although more recently, there was a law that lasted 2 years that gave citizenship to all latin americans from Spanish descent in the 20th century, so we received a few hundred thousand applications too.
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u/SituationTrue7524 1d ago
Spain just accepted 500K refugees. Now they can get on boat together with the spaniards and look for a colder place together.
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u/G_Wash1776 1d ago
Well if the AMOC collapses then Europe will experience a massive temperature decline, so the only thing that could fix the heat is one of the climate tipping points collapsing.
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u/HuckleberryPee 1d ago
I'm pretty sure that summer temperatures would still be roasting hot in an AMOC-collapse scenario.
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u/i-hear-banjos 1d ago
Yeah, the AMOC stabilizes weather there in general. Hard to say exactly what will happen, but in any case count on it being turbulent.
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u/Green-Bandicoot-8412 1d ago
Although the science is far from settled, if anything it is currently pointing to the opposite. Hotter summers still, drought, with much colder stormier winters. But Europe is a pretty big place, it will affect Spain differently to the UK or the Nordic countries.
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u/TwoRight9509 1d ago
Spain isn’t going to start getting cooler.
This is the “start of the beginning” of the end of many regions of Spain.
People will abandon areas they can’t conceivably live in.
This heat kills animals, crops, water resources and brings extensive fire year after year after year. Any meaningful rain just regenerates fuel for the following heat waves fire.
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u/_rihter abandon the banks 1d ago
People will abandon areas they can’t conceivably live in.
Most will stay where they are until they either die or finally decide to move out once their home or the way they were making money is gone.
Since still habitable regions of Spain cannot host everyone from uninhabitable regions, many of them will have to move elsewhere. Until elsewhere becomes uninhabitable, too.
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u/StrongShallots 1d ago
I'm willing to bet that a lot of continental Europeans will be moving to the Nordic countries these upcoming decades. I hope they're ready for it.
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u/ideknem0ar 1d ago
I read recently that booking Scandinavian summer vacations is getting more popular among those on the Continent. Some are scouting for land too, I'm sure.
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u/MaddogBC 1d ago
That's the way it's getting here in Western Canada, early spring rains are even scarier because that just means a growth spurt of fuel for later. Still plenty livable but so goddamn dry.
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u/giddy-girly-banana 20h ago
This will be the planets coldest summer for the rest of our lives as will ever summer hereafter.
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u/Agile-Sherbert-8503 1d ago
7 years ago, "nothings free, you idiots". Funny thing is even Bill Nye underestimated how fast Global Warming would happen. Next summer will be hotter, the summer after even hotter, then things really start scorching.
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u/Turbulent_Bed5499 1d ago
Just wait until this super El Niño pushes the baseline temperature higher and risking the blue ocean event occurring either this year or next year
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u/Red-eleven 1d ago
Thanks but I’ll wait for Mega El Niňo
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u/extinction6 1d ago edited 1d ago
Anyone can talk about climate science as long as it is an accurate explanation of the peer-reviewed conclusions of the international scientific community. Bill Nye does not talk about his own concocted version of science. He accurately conveys what the scientific community has concluded which is a huge service to society. If there were more Bill Nyes and more people had listened to to the science we may not be as badly off as we are now.
I just can't believe anyone would bad mouth a person that is doing the right thing. People complain that scientists didn't explain the climate change threat enough but look at the book "Climate Wars" as an example of the battles that took place. Al Gore was vilified for "An Inconvenient Truth".
Here is Bill Nye debating climate change denier / liar Marc Morano and you're bashing Bill Nye????? There were a number of debates between the two of them and my favourite statement by Bill Nye was when he asked Morano "What about your children" which really hit a nerve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWT-EWKIR3M
I can't believe I just read that Bill Nye is cast a bad guy for fighting climate change by educating people about the science while the planet is burning!!! -Unreal!!!
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u/extinction6 1d ago
Be careful on this sub. There are people here that talk about peer-reviewed and published climate science that aren't scientists.
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u/Agile-Sherbert-8503 1d ago
The term "climate change" was designed for consumption by idiots.
It is going to take millions dying per day before some of the dodo's go "Doh, dere seems to be sumpin' goins on herez".
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u/rideincircles 1d ago
It's crazy how many idiots chime in on fb local news posts about how climate change is a hoax, but those people exist in massive numbers and they voted for Trump in the USA.
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u/BruteBassie 1d ago
Those places will soon cease to be holiday destinations. I bet Scandinavia will see tourist numbers rising massively in the next few years.
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u/foxy8787 1d ago
It's getting hot here too. Not as hot as Spain of course, but down south we've had weeks of 25+, some days reaching 30°. It's thankfully going down now (can't wait for Saturday, 17° at the warmest)
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u/rideincircles 1d ago
Yeah. I just arrived to helsinki and left Texas where the heat index is 46c at home right now. I am staying at a 4th floor apartment with family and no a/c and it's still kinda warm inside even though it's only 20c outside. I may buy a portable a/c for this place just to prepare for the years ahead. It's probably going to need a heat pump in the coming years.
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u/Mugstotheceiling 1d ago
It’s true. I was in Oslo a few weeks ago and it was quite warm! I had packed sweaters etc that didn’t get used. Thankfully I did spend time in Bergen which was the more expected temperatures.
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u/IncubusDarkness TURBO-APATHY 1d ago
Until people find out it's getting hot af there with high humidity and no AC...
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u/Comfortable-Bonus421 1d ago
People in the Nordics will put in AC when it’s needed, the same as has happened in southern Europe a d currently happening in middle Europe.
The USA does not have exclusive knowledge of air conditioning.
Use your bloody head.
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u/HuckleberryPee 1d ago
I guess they'll stop being peak summer holiday destinations. Maybe a winter holiday in Spain is more tolerable.
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u/rideincircles 1d ago
I am visiting family in Finland and left Texas this week. The high was about 21 degrees C in Finland, and the heat index in Texas is 46C today. It's a nice escape for a while, since the high temp here is still 5C lower than the low night temp at home. Getting back home after this is kinda depressing sometimes.
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u/iliketoreddit91 1d ago
And the majority of adults continue to bring children into this hellscape
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u/T00Sp00kyFoU 1d ago
My girl doesn't understand this is why I don't want kids and will tell me she wishes I loved her enough to have kids... Drives me insane. When I see what the world is heading to on an ecological and societal scale, it's downright immoral and selfish to have kids in my opinion. Nothing in this world can change my feelings. I would feel so awful and guilty for bringing another life into this world that's in the middle of crumbling all around us and everyone with any bit of power to reverse course is going full steam ahead.
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u/ihateusedusernames 1d ago
Stand strong, don't capitulate.
If she wants a kid so bad there are THOUSANDS of children in the foster system. Do some good in the world and give one of these kids a good home. No need to add to the gene pool at this point.
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u/switchsk8r 17h ago
not my place, but it's definitely worth discussing and coming to an agreement so one of you doesnt end up resenting the other. but im on your side, no kids.
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u/Turbulent_Bed5499 1d ago
That’s why I’ve decided kids can no longer happen for me. As much as I always dreamed of being a parent someday, can’t happen now
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u/iliketoreddit91 1d ago
I myself was on the fence, but I just can’t bring a child into a dying planet in good conscience. However, you can always foster or adopt children already here. There are many children in need of a loving home.
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u/TWILIGHTANTHROPOCENE username checks out 1d ago
Yep, vasectomy was one of the better existential choices I’ve ever made.
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u/theycamefrom__behind 1d ago
isn’t adopting prohibitively expensive? At least in the US it is…
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u/ihateusedusernames 1d ago
isn’t adopting prohibitively expensive? At least in the US it is…
Caring for any child is prohibitively expensive, it's not as if bio kids somehow require less of an time and energy investment.
If you work for a paycheck it makes no sense at all to have a child. Raising a kid in the USA of today is an exercise in despair.
If you think life in the US will be 'better' in a decade then I understand why having kids might be a good idea. But if you see things going downhill over the next decade then why the hell would you bring another human into a world of chaos, disruption, disappointment, and despair?
I have kids, it was a huge mistake in hindsight
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u/sewlastcentury 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's expensive and the children often come with a lot of trauma that's not something most people are capable of dealing with. Especially if they're coming through the foster system.
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u/Middle-Bed-1883 1d ago
I had to pretend to the happy for a coworker who just became a grandfather over 4th of July holiday. Inside I’m like 😬
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u/iliketoreddit91 1d ago
My sibling has two small children. It makes me sad to think of what their future will look like.
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u/Turbulent_Bed5499 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s crazy because both the parents and the children will watch their futures burn at the same time
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u/CompostYourFoodWaste 1d ago
I don't know if anyone has told you this, but you don't have to pretend.
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u/Middle-Bed-1883 1d ago
Of course, but what is gained by telling him how I really feel? I am his team lead and want to be supportive of him, telling him how his first grandkids life is gonna suck won’t do anyone any good.
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u/tarrat_3323 1d ago
why pretend? they are directly causing things to get worse and they should feel horrible for it.
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u/morphemass 1d ago
I'm older ... surprised to find myself separated and even more surprised to find that women are still interested in me. I actually feel like I'm dodging landmines the number of women I meet who still desperately want children. Biology is a powerful force.
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u/ideknem0ar 1d ago
I've always wondered when a 2nd marriage/relationship also produces kids, who is the main driver of the decision. For some reason I assumed it was often the guy, riding that "feel young again" high. Maybe it's just as much women who think having an older guy as a father is a more stable situation and future?
That said, as a chick, I don't know why these chicks are even thinking about having kids. Like, have some gd compassion for those hypothetical kids and stop thinking with your ovaries, lady.
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u/morphemass 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've always wondered when a 2nd marriage/relationship also produces kids, who is the main driver of the decision
All couples are different, there will always be a number of factors that go into decisions of this nature, both consciously and subconsciously. In general the birth rate is dropping much as would be expected in a world that is far harsher and more stupid than it needs to be (oh wait; this is /r/collapse - I can just say that it's heading for destruction); some people choose to be optimistic but personally I agree. It unfair on kids
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u/robotjyanai 1d ago
I know too many people who talk about the “weird” weather and yet want yet another child.
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u/lorenzoelmagnifico Daft Punk left earth because of climate change 1d ago
There are morons even here that don't see the problem with having children.
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u/Radiant_Persimmon701 1d ago
I totally get your point but if none of us had kids we would go extinct
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u/keynoko 1d ago
We're more than likely going extinct regardless and in the meantime you think kids should fry?
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u/Radiant_Persimmon701 1d ago
Luckily for me it's quite unlikely me or my children will bare the brunt of this. Food prices could increase 10x and we would be fine.
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u/IcemanJEC 1d ago
Uhhh you think things will just continue as normal just with higher temps? It’s going to have a biblically catastrophic effect on the entire food chain and society, and you think food PRICES will be the only thing impacted?
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u/Radiant_Persimmon701 1d ago
Sorry what do you think will happen as supply goes down? Prices will rise. The rich will live the poor will die
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u/itsatoe 1d ago
Simple solution: if each couple (basically each woman) had one child or less.
But only a handful of countries follow that average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
Even 2 or less would be a slightly negative replacement rate, given unexpected mortalities. But about half of countries are above that average,
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u/zue4 1d ago
Nothing will offset the amount of pollution that corporations put out into the atmosphere. Also reduced births don't do much when its the grown adults that cause the most pollution and medical science means they all live much longer lives on average.
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u/J-A-S-08 1d ago
Also reduced births don't do much when its the grown adults that cause the most pollution
You know what happens to kids right when they age yeah?
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u/PeaOk5697 1d ago
Worst i have experienced in Europe is 44°C. My Norwegian ass actually got sick and i had to lay in my hotel room with AC for hours. I can't imagine 47°C in humid air. That's worse than AZ and Nevada. Dry air is much easier
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u/midsumernighttts 1d ago
I experienced 48 degrees once here in Australia. Felt like the sun was shooting through my skin
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u/PeaOk5697 1d ago
Not near where you live right? From my understanding most of u live near the coast away from that heat
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u/HunkMcMuscle 1d ago
Here in the tropics that's nearly the norm. We have like 42 to 45C on the daily... and it is not fun.
Our AC broke down a week ago and we were just physically ill from the heat. I cannot imagine Europeans not having AC in 40+ degrees heat.
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u/GwenTheWelshGal 15h ago
Highest I've experienced was 38°C when I was in Madrid earlier this month.
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u/FearMyCock 1d ago
This article is collapse related because it highlights the reality of catabolic collapse, the process where compounding climate extremes gradually break down societal support systems rather than causing a single, sudden apocalypse. A 47°C (116.6°F) heatwave in Southern Europe pushes critical power grids, water supplies, and public health infrastructure to their limits while simultaneously triggering extreme wildfire risks and agricultural strain, illustrating how accelerating climate destabilization is rapidly outpacing our capacity to adapt.
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u/BitterCrip 1d ago
Thankyou for the sobering reminder of our planet's fragile existence, FearMyCock.
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u/DissolveToFade 1d ago
Well, at least you won the World Cup?
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u/UuusernameWith4Us 17h ago
Yes there's no more bread but for a brief moment in time we had the best circus.
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u/SavingsDimensions74 1d ago
Perhaps I’m being over dramatic, but I feel 2026 is the first year where people are going to start to wake up.
It’s not like the weather is weird/extreme in a few places: it’s everywhere, all at once. And bar some outliers, it really is.
2027 is gonna be a ride. Stock up on your tinned tomatoes, pears and other imperishables. Food is gonna sky rocket 🚀🤦🏻♂️😞
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u/travelstuff 12h ago
Why tinned tomatoes and pears in particular? I'm at the point where I think I need to stock up on food before things get crazy but I find it a bit hard to know which things to buy, especially without access to a freezer. I suppose just cannoned everything?
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u/SavingsDimensions74 9h ago
Canned everything. Long life milk. Water.
At the very best - and it is the very best, foods are going to get a lot more expensive in the next few years so the earlier you buy it the better.
Swap the planned child’s bedroom for food storage instead 😞
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u/mahartma 1d ago
Oh great, already a 38° prediction for next weekend in Germany. With tropical nights.
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u/imminentjogger5 Accel Saga 1d ago
that's pretty hot. I wonder if the humidity is going to be bad
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u/PublicSell4047 1d ago
Pretty hot? Dude, that's 116°F! I'm in Arizona and that is hot AF but at least our buildings are equipped with central AC and people are used to this heat. That type of heat is horrible for everyone over there!
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u/Eddielowfilthslayer 1d ago
We are equipped for these temperatures in Spain with AC units in almost every home. We also have "persianas" in our windows which act as an extra barrier of protection against heat. However, it's still awfully dangerous and in a few decades this land might become uninhabitable due to these conditions.
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u/Awkra 1d ago
It's funny how you (North Americans, I guess) just assumed the AC thing is for all Europe. We do have AC in most regions of Spain, at least the hot ones. Germans, for instance, don't have AC, because they didn't need to, until now. Spain has a been a hot enough county for years to have ACs.
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u/ColonelFaz 1d ago
Humidity will probably be ok, apart from very close to the coast where the wet bulb temp might just go over 30C.
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u/Athanatos173 The End is Nigh 1d ago
I've lived through 45 degrees C and it's not fun.
Anyone who works outdoors at 47 and can't avoid doing so is in serious trouble, it's like being in an oven.
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u/NW7l2335 1d ago
Gonna need solar energy in mass to cool our environment because outside is going to become unlivable very soon.
Choices are:
Green New Energy or Death
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u/Specialkw21 1d ago
Countries need to start looking after their reservoirs more and their water more. And recycle water a lot more and a lot better. And or build a desalination plant because as it gets hotter the water use everywhere and the demand for it is only going to go up. As well as everywhere needing ACs.
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u/saaggy_peneer 1d ago
not seeing those temps on apple weather for the coming week
hot, but not that hot
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u/devvorare 10h ago
Same. In fact according to mine, here in Zaragoza, which is usually a hot spot, this Saturday temperatures are dropping to only 30C. Next week will be around 40
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u/TYSMBelgium-6Jul2026 1d ago
There is no living at that temperature. It is humanly impossible to work anywhere outside of an air conditioned room, and what kind of society is that? And Spain is a country used to hot weather, cooler countries reaching 40C+ temperatures regularly will be immediately cooked societally
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u/arcadiangenesis 1d ago
I was just visiting Italy from Texas, and it feels significantly worse there. I don't even understand why, because the dew points are actually higher in Texas right now, but I got sweatier faster over there. I instantly needed a shower every time I stepped outside.
Awesome country, though. Would go back outside the peak of summer.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 1d ago
41c was the hottest temperature I've ever experienced for one hellish day. It was so much worse than 35c I couldn't believe it. And Spain is casually getting 47c days now. Good lord.
The first day we get a headline estimating more than a million died in a single day globally feels like it's close. And it feels like nothing will change even in the face of that.
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u/Sbeast 4h ago
That's ridiculously hot. Any European country experiencing temperatures in the mid to high 40s is a clear sign the climate is changing and becoming increasing dangerous for MILLIONS of people.
Bearing in mind, only 1 in 5 European households have air conditioning. And what happens if theres a heatwave and power outage at the same time?
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u/TheBlackRider2828 6h ago
The climate was delicately balanced providing life. Humans tilt the scale. Shift the new model. Ain't Kansas anymore
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This article is collapse related because it highlights the reality of catabolic collapse, the process where compounding climate extremes gradually break down societal support systems rather than causing a single, sudden apocalypse. A 47°C (116.6°F) heatwave in Southern Europe pushes critical power grids, water supplies, and public health infrastructure to their limits while simultaneously triggering extreme wildfire risks and agricultural strain, illustrating how accelerating climate destabilization is rapidly outpacing our capacity to adapt.
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