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It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep. It's not even summer there yet.

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[โ€“] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yep, climate change was super well known then too, fantastic point ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Very convenient for those countries that they get to keep all the economic benefit from deforestation and be among the biggest emitters while the people doing what they also did get snide comments implying they deserve to live in conditions unsuitable for humans because of the evils they're doing

[โ€“] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you propose then? Make European countries accoutable for mistakes made 200 years ago? Even though most of them are doing really well to transition into green energy? What would that accomplish, exactly?

tax them, distribute the money to the global south. Less disposable income means less consumption, and those funds can be put to use building a green economy in the developing world.

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