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Over a third of US population urged to stay indoors amid record-breaking heat
- pkdpic 4y agoIt's happening, just as Kim Stanley Robinson predicted with common sense and middle-school level research... How did he know? See chapter 1, Ministry for the Future (free pdf) >> [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiW9PDeibD4AhWJLTQIHRjcCG0QFnoECGMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fyes-pdf.com%2Felectronic-book%2F2773&usg=AOvVaw23xBFJxhh5by3MW2wWr7_M https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...]
- 14 4y agoAs a Canadian this worries me. Will the US one day March on up looking for a cooler climate. Though we too had a head dome last year and it wasn’t good I can only imagine what it was like closer to the equator.
- RGamma 4y agoWhatever the reaction it will probably be something insane, like increasing short term bandaid consumption without large scale consumption reduction(1), because Americans are lead by insane people. Also, to those insane people: please stay out of Europe. No demand for more cohesion-dissolving egoists (the rest is welcome). (1) "The Ecological Footprint for the United States is 8.1 gha per person (in 2018) and global biocapacity is 1.6 gha per person (in 2018). Therefore, we would need (8.1/ 1.6) = 5.1 Earths if everyone lived like Americans." -- https://www.overshootday.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do-we-need/ https://www.overshootday.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do...