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'Unprecedented heat': Iran begins two-day nationwide shutdown amid soaring temperatures (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

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[-] Lodra@programming.dev 45 points 11 months ago

Precedented

[-] MrFappy@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

What do they mean “poised to be?” Its august 2nd.

[-] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I'd imagine official verification and so forth is yet to come.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

And August could be hotter.

[-] dunning_cougar@waveform.social 4 points 11 months ago

This is a climate catastrophe! If you still drive a petrol car, you are the problem! Those poor Iranians…

[-] Nibbler@lemmy.ml 40 points 11 months ago

Stop putting the blame on the individual when corporations easily account for over 70% of global emissions and pollution. My gas powered car isn't gonna change shit.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

This guy is a gigantic troll, look at his profile.

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[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

You're trolling, right? Can't possibly be this delusional...

[-] Treatyoself@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It appears, the username, does check out.

[-] dunning_cougar@waveform.social 3 points 11 months ago

Unbelievable. The data is right in front of you. Not hard to analyze. You don’t need to process high temperatures!

[-] lightstream@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Those poor Iranians

I suggest you try to analyse the data. Iranians have a very high energy usage per capita - at least as high as any EU country and probably higher. The country is a major oil and gas producer, and the population is accustomed to cheap petrol prices due to heavy subsidisation by the government. You won't find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment. Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

You won't find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment.

Lack of choice and potential lobbying from the car industry might also be factors here. I can't imagine anyone who would drive if there was cheap and plentiful public transport available.

Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.

I'd say the same for the Americans. A century of pro-car policy removes the illusion of choice.

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[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Big yikes. As long as the grid that you plug your EVs into is based off of fossil fuels, you're not solving anything.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

My grid is based off of wind. Yours could be too. Demand it, importantly demand the laws that allow it be built . Many areas have outlawed them, or may as well because of all the red tape. They are standard these days and so permits should be shall issue in request for a standard design.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 15 points 11 months ago

I switched to paper straws so I think that makes me carbon neutral now.

[-] dunning_cougar@waveform.social 2 points 11 months ago

Great! Every bit helps!

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Good point, I'll just commute 2 hours both ways by bike then. Thanks for your contribution. /s

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[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

I’m not going to have kids so I feel like I can drive whatever because my carbon footprint ends with me. I’m also fairly fatalistic about climate change. Humans are too stupid to stop it and when enough of us die the problem will solve itself.

[-] bzxt@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

The main culprits are the big oil companies. They made the carbon footprint term to make us feel guilty and shift the blame from the biggest polluters.

[-] r3nder@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

Yep! And I bet it'll turn out in a few decades that it will come out they were also behind the Doomerism we're seeing a lot of on social media these days. "Well it's too late so why try?" Is much more comfortable than "We have to sacrifice a lot of comfort, but if we all try really hard we can do it."

Weird thought, you ever think oil executives have nightmares about a global collective wanting to bring them to the guillotine?

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

They made the decisions that got us here, they have the power to turn this around, but we are to sacrifice everything while they continue to live in luxury and do nothing to help? Does this seriously seem reasonable to you?

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The main culprit is likely the US military, except that they don't allow themselves to be monitored.

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Indeed they corrupted the narrative to avoid blame, to maintain profits.

But who are they selling the oil to? Us.

We are all sinners in this

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

All sinners, yep. Cool story buddy.

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[-] mashbooq@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

Most pollution from cars comes from the tires, not the gas burning. If you drive any car at all, you're the problem

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

Citation needed.. tires are a problem, but gasoline is farm worse pollution overall. Unless you cherry pick pollutant.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I believe most of the microplastics that are in everything we consume come from car tires. So probably less a climate change problem, but still an issue.

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