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thatfloatingcat: fishermod: tikaka: katsdisturbed: snooziep: spectralarchers: rifa: chaos-dog: kingjaffejoffer: imsoshive: If Canada don’t GET THE FUCK … lmao There are now more than 90 people dead. You can bitch and whine that’s it’s hotter where you are, but you have to understand that it’s the elderly, homeless and small children who don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to health problems. How fucking despicable can you be to just laugh at people dying because temperatures are hotter where you are. Our infrastructure was built to withstand -30 C°, not the heat. It’s not about how Canadians are “weak”, it’s literally just shitty circumstances. Not to mention that people who are accustomed to cold climates have a physically more difficult time coping with temperatures that their bodies aren’t used to. Also a lot of people who have never had to cope with hotter temperatures aren’t as familiar with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, don’t know how to manage the heat safely , etc! That last point. Denmark is currently in its hottest summer ever recorded, and the number of people I’ve talked to who have only now discovered what a heat stroke is amazes me, because I grew up in the South of France where summers are hot as fuck every year - my brother-in-law went out for a bike ride without a hat and with a half a liter of water for three hours and came back and was sick because of it.  The idea that he’d get sick because of the sun didn’t even OCCUR to him, because in his 30+ years on this green ball swirling through space, it’s never been an issue for him. In the South of France, most cafés have mist sprayers and all shops / malls are air-conditioned. In Denmark, most cafés do NOT have mist sprayers (but heat lights!) and the shops are not always air-conditioned. Most of the warehouses have been out of portable air-conditioners and fans on an off since May because people are hot and have no air-condition installed. The buildings are built to keep heat IN. Not out. No air con, buildings designed to keep heat in, not even ceiling fans, no drinking fountains, windows that don’t open in buildings, and we expect people to work in those buildings, in their full uniform which has no ‘hot weather’ option - I mean what employer is going to provide short sleeves and shorts for that one week every three years where it gets above 25/80 degrees? - windows that don’t open on public transport, and often no shade while waiting for said public transport, we have heaters and insulation and draft excluders, we buy black cars and dark clothes, we buy sunscreen for our holidays in Spain, then forget where we put it, when we find it and apply it we sweat it off again because we’re not used to the heat, we walk places rather than drive and even if we drove, our cars don’t have proper air con and we don’t have covered parking, school playgrounds and public parks have no shade, people don’t have pools so kids play out all summer in the heat. We don’t have ‘American style’ large fridges or freezers with ice makers and they break down when competing with hotter than usual ambient temperature, most of us don’t even own cool boxes - or if we do it’s at the back of the shed full of spiders. So yes, we have to be told it’s going to be hot. And we have to be warned to check our elderly neighbours and to help them take the blankets off their bed or to swap to a summer duvet, to suggest they have a cold drink instead of a pot of tea and take off their cardigan. Because we only know people who got sunstroke on their holidays abroad. And we have never in our lives known anyone who died from the heat. To anybody who thinks it’s funny when people die, you can go fuck off a tall bridge.  I live in Phoenix. It’s going to be 115F/46C degrees today. This is nothing unusual for this time of year. And yet every year we lose people to the heat. I can’t imagine what super temps must be like when you are not used to it. England, Quebec, and most of Europe’s home were designed to keep heat in. Not let it out. So instead of giggling like evil children over someone else’s horror, try being a little more understanding at the very least of what they are going through. Standard Finnish summer is usually around 20Celsius. 25C is considered hot weather! This summer has been over 30Celsius. We’ve had rain maybe three times in two months where I’m at and I’ve had my first sunstroke, the whole country is under forest fire warnings, fish are dying in the lakes and many lakes grow poisonous algae that makes it dangerous to swim in. Oh and pretty much every store has far long ago ran out of fans so we’re stuck in boiling apartments that’re built to keep heat in. (If the immediate effects aren’t bad enough, as a gardner I’m super worried for long term. The wells are drying, water table is being drained faster than it can recover, and if the winters don’t match up, we’re going to see pests we’ve never dealt with before. A good portion of agriculture relies on cold winters to kill most pests, but now they’ve been creeping north fast. If things aren’t dealt with in time we’ll be facing a pretty steep drop in food by next year when we get shitty crop and south is burning so bad we can’t even import food.) This is a global problem that needs to be addressed fast, not giggled and sneered at. @allthecanadianpolitics Also worth noting that in many areas, it isn’t JUST hot, but it’s also EXTREMELY humid. Where I live in Southern Ontario, we’ve had a number of days where it’s been over 40C with the humidity factored in. People who experience this will tell you - it isn’t the HEAT that gets you so much as the HUMIDITY (like heat is bad but the humidity makes it so much worse). If you live in a desert sort of climate, you might be used to high temps, but it’s a dry heat. Bodies deal with that better. But when it’s humid, the body’s natural cooling mechanisms DON’T WORK. If it’s humid, your sweat will not evaporate to cool you, you just sweat and sweat and it goes nowhere and doesn’t cool you off particularly effectively.And this works in the reverse too - all you people scoffing at how you can deal with high temperatures? Come here in winter, I’m sure you’ll be literally out of your element. I had a roommate this past year who was on exchange from Hong Kong where it can get extremely hot, and she couldn’t tolerate the cold at all. By early October she’d already pulled out her warmest clothes. The coldest weather she was used to experiencing was around 5-10C, she couldn’t even fathom anything below zero. We adapt to what we’re accustomed to. Heat disproportionately affects the elderly, ill/disabled, and small children. Our infrastructure is not designed for heat and a good chunk of housing has no AC - we have minimum temperatures that housing can be in the winter but no maximum temperatures for housing in the summer, AC is seen as a luxury in many cases if you’re renting. Humidity can also make the heat far worse, since the body can’t effectively cool itself in high heat high humidity climates. This is serious. This is killing people. -- source link

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