China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.

China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.

  • @Minarble@aussie.zone
    29•1 year ago

    Is there a single country that hasn’t had to deal with extreme weather events in the past 2 years?

    This shit is accelerating. We aren’t reacting fast enough to slow it down.

    • Ooops
      28•1 year ago

      We aren’t reacting at all because the people in power don’t care.

      And with that I don’t even mean politicians -although the narrative is popular- but in many cases the voters who just want to live the few decades they have left as always without any changes.

      • @pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11•1 year ago

        The majority of the people that feel that way do so because they’re consistently lied to about climate change by the elite who actually don’t care.

      • @Minarble@aussie.zone
        6•1 year ago

        That used to be “their” internal narrative it will all happen after I’m dead so what do I care?

        It’s happening now and getting worse quickly.

        • @doylio@lemmy.ca
          5•1 year ago

          This is less about malicious people and more about tragedy of the commons. Most people don’t want to see the environment destroyed, but are acting under their own incentives. If I cut down a tree it seems to makes a negligible different to the forest and my family gets to be warm that night. But if a million of us do it the forest is gone.

          Multiply that by several generations and increasing power due to technology and we’re here now, still under the same incentives

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    And the flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard of, with scientists - blaming climate change - warning that the worst is yet to come.

    A Greenpeace study from two years ago, using UN climate panel mapping, found that more heatwaves and extreme rainfall would effectively extend summer by one month during this century in the provinces around Beijing and Shanghai.

    A brown line revealed what was the high-water mark, with all manner of first-floor items swallowed up and spat out into the street as the flood spread the carnage.

    “We suffered big losses: trucks and other vehicles; our goods; furniture; everything we own was wrecked,” says Mrs Han, who operates a warehouse for deliveries with her husband.

    The professor, a geographer at Montana State University, adds that “climate change-driven weather extremes are a huge problem for China because of its dense population and as a major global economy”.

    Whether because of droughts or sudden floods, extreme weather is again drawing attention to the impact of climate change on China, with serious questions being asked about whether or not the measures in place to fight it are currently ambitious enough to rein in the destructive force of these potentially catastrophic events.

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