To ask if the red weather warning will now make you take climate change seriously?

[YetiTeri]

Now you know what impact this heat will have (schools closing, travel chaos, threat to life) will it make you take climate change more seriously?

Yes

Yes. Just reading the news about the number of wildfires across Europe right now. Really worrying.

I already did. It’s the government and corporations who do not give enough fucks to change things.

I've been around for ever seen worse heat wise also seen wet cold summers so a couple of days nope I'm not hooked. Global warming isn't about isolated events

No. We need to adapt and emulate countries where hotter temperatures for long periods are the norm. School days begin earlier and end earlier, homes have wood or tile floors and window shutters, people don’t chuck off most of their clothes and spend the hottest part of the day baking themselves in direct sun.

Who didn't know the impact it will have?

Unfortunately the biggest contributors to climate change are things outside of the average persons hand.

Or having a government who can easily be bribed lobbied by corporations who are intent on destroying our planet for maximum profit.

As I have been abroad on holiday once this decade I feel that a lot of people could do a lot more than I could to cut there consumption. Especially the rich who fly by private jet and then lecture us as they step out

Well shush don't tell anyone but fires occur for many reasons, not down to nature

I do but when politicians turn up to COP in limos and private planes it's...hard!

When you know the plastic you recycle ends up in landfill with everything else and they still have Formula one etc. I don't see why I should worry beyond my own capabilities.

Mankind needs to invest massively in carbon capture. If I saw that, I would be less ...sceptical is the wrong word. More engaged maybe?

I've been around for ever seen worse heat wise also seen wet cold summers so a couple of days nope I'm not hooked. Global warming isn't about isolated events

Isolated events can cause crops to fail. The more frequent they happen, the worse it gets.

I will be honest and say I’m not sure. I remember long hot summers as a kid - then they seemed to go away for a number of years and were replaced by muggy, rainy ones. Now it’s back to hot. The 40 degree heatwave is only due to last a few days at most, I would be more concerned if it were for weeks or months on end. But what do you mean by ‘take it seriously’?

You're 💯 right. This isn't on the small people. This is up to the government and the v frequent flyers to bring the change. F1 have committed to carbon neutral by 2030 - they need to be held to that. No more helicopters flying into Silverstone. Electric engines. Whatever it takes.

What would ‘taking it seriously’ look like to you, and why is it you think you’re doing more of this than a bunch of strangers you don’t know?

Vote for politicians that have climate change at the core of their policies.

Buy seasonal and local.

Use trains rather than plane/cars

Stop buying disposable fashion (Shein...)

Switch to a plant based diet even in part.

Don't post vacuous posts saying it was hot when you were young when the point is these days are no longer anomalies.

That stuff. But mostly the first.

I am worried about climate change but when celebrities use private planes and their 1 flight accounts for 3 years of my carbon footprint it takes the piss.

Also most of the worlds emissions come for 29 companies they need to do more tbh

I’ve always taken it seriously, even before it had an direct impact on me.
So much so, that I chose not to have children because of it.
And people roll their eyes at me if I tell why I’m chilfree when THEY ASK.

Would that be countries like India and Pakistan, where 90 people have died from excessive heat already this year?

Or the United States, where heat caused at least 10,000 deaths between 1999 and 2016?

extremes of weather have always happened - the ice age, the Thames freezing over, previous very hot summers. Wash out summers! I’m not sure it’s ‘vacuous’ to point that out. And which politicians exactly?

Local doesn't mean it's good for the environment it only means it's local.

@YetiTeri those won't make much of an impact. Considering the bulk of the climate issues are overseas

What really makes me cry inside is when, in this week when half the country will hit 35 degrees or over, someone like Kemi Badenoch comes along and says now is the time to liberate companies and corporations from all those pesky profit-killing environmental regulations. Cut the red tape, right Kemi?

No, it changes nothing. This is one of the effects that we knew was coming, and here it is.

While it is a serious issue, I understand why people shrug their shoulders. Takes one celeb to created triple the carbon each of us plebs saves by inconveniencing ourselves (often). I say we eat the celebs

Shell & BP are British.
Apple & Google are American.
Bitcoin customers are in developed countries.
The UK buys clothes from Shein.

Climate change issues are caused in other countries by us.