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More than 61,000 people died because of Europe’s record-shattering heat wave last summer, scientists have concluded. And that’s probably still an underestimation.
The figure is just shy of the 70,000 excess deaths researchers attribute to another exceptional heat wave that swept Europe in 2003. That disaster helped raise awareness about the dangers of climate change and the continent’s general lack of heat action plans.
Yet the new findings suggest that in the two decades since, efforts to prepare for a hotter future and protect the continent’s most vulnerable populations have fallen short.
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I think it’s “intentional” in the sense that rich people knew this was coming, they tell pleasing lies and publicly deny it, and they believe themselves to be insulated from the effects by their wealth and resources.
And I guess they’re right about that.