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Wildfires are breaking out all over Europe,
amidst an absolutely devastating heat wave, the view out the windows was red,
you wanna take a look at a heat map of Europe, take a look at this.
They are breaking heat records all over the place, gonna bring that up.
Yeah, it's just devastating, and I don't just mean that it's hot.
This is the sort of news that we're about to launch into,
that when someone tells you like, man I wonder if someday climate change
is gonna be so bad that it will get through to people.
No, there's no someday, there's no future right now, this is it,
over 1000 people have died in just this heat wave in just Europe,
360 people died in Spain just between July 10 and July 15.
More than 800 had died there last month, they had highs of 110°F- 113°F,
and those are huge numbers, but let's keep it real, these are individuals.
One 60 year old Madrid sanitation worker collapsed in the middle of the street
while working on Friday.
The man was rushed to the hospital with a body temperature of over 106°F and
died of heatstroke.
He was one of 123 people who died from the heat in one day.
Portugal, nearby, 659 people had died in the past week,
most of them elderly, and it's not just continental.
In Britain,
the UK met Office on Friday issued its first-ever read extreme heat warning for
Monday and Tuesday, when an exceptional hot spell is expected to hit the country.
Some of the stuff that we report on is typical, it's happened for a long time,
it might be getting a little bit worse,let's take a look at this,
is the top 10 hottest UK day is on record.
You'll notice they're happening more frequently, and
of course this falls on last week we talked about some of the heat records
being broken in other parts of the World.
This is happening in Africa the Middle East, and Asia,
we were talking about in Japan and China record heat, this is what happens.
Our producer put in a screenshot, UK Royal Air Force halted flights in and
out of its largest air base, because the runway melted.
We'll get to the law soon, don't worry about that.
But yeah,
over 1000 people died in one part of the World from one heat wave that is the new
normal except that it's inevitably gonna get worse with every passing year.
>> And there's no greater metaphor for climate change, than the runway of
a flight melting as you're trying to take off to burn more fossil fuels.
And it's something that I believe was sighted originally, or
was used as an anecdote in a Naomi client book, this changes everything,
which I definitely recommend everybody read.
Which is basically about how climate change necessitates structural
economic changes.
And as much fearmongering as Fox news does about,
this means socialism, it actually does.
It means to a certain extent, that we cannot continue to have the 1%
hoarding and burning and like fomenting the death of the planet.
It just, we cannot sustain this amount of hyper capitalism and look, Europe usually.
And I know that like I have relatives in Italy, and like in august there's like
that one week where things get really hot, and yes, the elderly die.
And again, these aren't people on housed, these are people in their homes,
who maybe don't have a see, there's rolling blackouts all the time and
then they die, and it's awful.
Now it's happening in July, then it's gonna start happening in June,
then it's pretty soon there won't even be springs etc.
And this is gonna keep going on and for a small sort of solution.
He's also cutting back on the amount of let's say, internal flights that
happen in Europe, what's sort of ironic there, is you've got people on a train.
Europe is very famous and well known for an incredible train system, right?
But of course more and more jetliners are pushing, and
have been pushing to take really quick and cheap flights all around Europe.
Here are people actually trying to like take a more carbon neutral way of
transportation, now they're surrounded by flames.
I mean just again, irony on irony here.
>> Exactly, yeah no, it's devastating, it's, already here,
it's already affecting every part of the globe, this is not a thing for 10 years,
20 years, 50 years, those will be worse and we'll follow it.
Just stay tuned, but right now this is untenable.
But anyway, I wanna go back to the screenshot we put up,
there are people pushing for a too hot to work low.
Right now in the UK and Ireland, there is no law that says that any given
temperature is too hot or too cold to work.
The fear of course is not just that it's uncomfortable,
that it's difficult to work, but the people will literally die.
That's one of the reasons we cited that particular sanitation worker in Madrid,
this is already happening.
And so, we need these protections, not just for the UK and Ireland,
there has to be considerations here as well.
And how likely do you think that will be allowed?
Federally, for something like this happened.
Maybe some states will do the right thing, but maybe people don't remember, was it
last year that those tornadoes, swept through I think it was amazon facilities?
>> Yes. >> And they hadn't been allowed to leave,
and like now we've moved on and nobody's even thinking about it.
The corporations are not gonna willingly let people take work off,
as more and more days become impossible to work on.
So that is something again, another thing that we're gonna have to push for
and until we do people will needlessly die.
>> Yeah, and that's a really good point and don't get it twisted,
it is the cost benefit analysis of an entire warehouse,
luckily not many lives were lost, but even a couple lives.
But let's say 30 employees, at an Amazon warehouse were killed in a tornado,
you think that's all that matters to them?
You think they can't pay out those families,
you think they can't go through those lawsuits?
It's amazon of course they can, they would rather do that, than actually warn people,
have people stay at home, in any way inhibit their productivity.
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