2019-08-08 - Hot
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Ugh, it's again ridiculously hot, and it will remain to be hot here
for some more days to come. An while summer does come with warm
weather on this hemisphere, it is being unreasonably hot and dry.
And still the country seems to be all giddy for these unreasonably
high temperatures. "Oh hey, it has never been this hot? Well, no
worries. Let's fire up the barbeque and play summery music. And
when we go inside we'll just crank up the airco a bit higher, and
everything will be fine." Just keep doing what you're doing, and
don't change a thing.
Somehow i still hope for an attitude change at some point, where
people will realize that these long periods of elevated
temperatures and the resulting droughts are in actuality a real and
very scary problem. Furthermore, it is a problem that will not go
away, and will not become any smaller. It is also not a problem
that warrants the cheerful attitude it continues to be welcomed
with... "Oh hey, just put the airco a bit higher and have a beer".
It's as if you're having a party in a house and somebody lit some
candles, because everybody loves some cosy candlelight in the dark
evening. But in the meantime the candles have set fire to the
curtains and parts of the carpet... And instead of panicking and
trying to extinguishing the fire which is staring to blaze around
the house, all that happens is that the party-goers are admiring
this "enhanced" candlelight, and having a celebratory beer to enjoy
it.
The Swedish girl was right. Our house is on fire and we should
panic.