Scorching heatwave hits Spain | Copernicus
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A severe heatwave is ongoing in Europe. Temperature records broken in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain.

On 11 July 2023, the Land Surface Temperature (LST) in some areas of Extremadura (Spain) exceeded 60°C, as highlighted in this data visualisation derived from measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) instrument. The ongoing heatwave in Spain this week is resulting in a total of 13 autonomous communities, being at extreme risk (red alert), significant risk (orange alert), and risk (yellow alert) due to maximum temperatures that, in some cases, will exceed 40°C and reach a maximum of 43°C.

For reference, “in areas where vegetation is dense, the land surface temperature never rises above 35°C. The hottest land surface temperatures on Earth are in plant-free desert landscapes.”

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    As if the people with the Power (mainly from money) haven’t adjusted the context in which we live so that:

    • Most people don’t have the information (notice how so many unethical companies hide behind brands and Libel Legislation is used to stop news of malpractices).
    • Most don’t have the option to drop a job out of principle (born into a World were ALL Land already has owners and not being scions of the Owner Class, most of us are born to work for the Owners - as we are born not owning the means of production - to then pay the Owners for a roof over our heads - as we are born not owning our home or land for it - and for food in our tables - as we are born not owning the land in which to grow our own food).
    • Most are de facto powerless and convinced there is nothing they can do to chance things, often already aware of the corruption whilst excusing their own innaction about it with “they’re all like that” and “there’s nothing I can do to change it”.

    I would go as far as saying that the interiorization by many of “solutions” of the “lets go after the symptoms of the problems of the system” rather than “lets change the system” like that which you are suggesting, is a massive victory for those who gain the most from the Current System: whilst people fight on a case by case basis to fix individual results of underlying systemic flaws - which are constantly producing new such problematic results, like a disease that causes the same symptoms again and again if you don’t cure it and only take pills to reduce the symptoms - they’re actually not fixing the foundational flaws in the system.

    I see tons of this misguided behaviour in the “modern” Left: I call it the “The car is fine, it only needs a few screw thightenned” misguided pseudo-leftist politics.

    • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      … :( i upvoted you and lost a huge reply… i uh… sad.

      I’ll summarise.

      We have a lot more power than we give ourselves credit for, or realise. People need to sit down and find their power and then apply it. They rigged the system but its just a minor thing if you could see through it. It’s mostly about increasing the % of people trying and increasing their effectiveness while trying. This system is on the verge of collapse and even tiny inputs at this stage are heavily in our favour.

      We are lied to about how to solve the problem. They make problems and frame them as the root cause, we then waste our lives chimping out trying to deal with symptoms.