Regardless to whether our legislators acknowledge it, excusing them, climate change is real. Mother nature is clearly unsettled and until she settles, we need to approach life differently.
We have civic leaders on every level whom we pay for services and protection.
Spain is adopting the approach of heat havens opening during the summer, as temperatures begin to average above 40 degrees Celsius. Local cooling centers for people in need of cooling and or company. What you would expect from the term community.
I did want to point this out, but many of us know this is a local solution already in use in some places. NYC for sure has cooling centers in the summer (born and raised in NJ).
These are the type of community solutions that make us great. It does not matter where you are. We all understand the value of community – whether or not we embrace it.
But cooling centers are not all we need. Civically, we are going to have to start imagining life above sea level. Living at sea level is not going to be a good idea, due to flooding. Until mother nature gets this all sorted. We are going to need to look out for ourselves.
Kudos to Spain for being a lead speaker in the global conversation that is just getting started.
[I do not think flood prevention is the way to go. people will create a different engineering feat by city, that may or may not last. or be altered by mother nature redesigning the course. we need to begin thinking above sea level, for now… or underground]
[it is bad that our leaders do not respect the will of the people, and take the final decision as an empire not a democracy]