Extreme heat cancels London climate change event on adapting to extreme heat
www.independent.co.uk
Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

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Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

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    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      and make it worse. That reaction is literally called Implacactory Denial

      https://theconversation.com/the-new-climate-denial-using-wealth-to-insulate-yourself-from-discomfort-and-change-199101

      Much research has focused on how we intellectually distance ourselves from the unpleasant realities happening around us. What requires greater attention is how we may engage in climate denial by seeking out spaces of sensory comfort and using them to shield ourselves as the world unravels outside our window.

      Denial, thought of in this way, is entirely sensible. My colleagues and I asked residents around the Western Sydney suburb of Penrith – famously the hottest place on Earth during the Black Summer of 2019-20 – about their experiences during heatwave conditions. Unsurprisingly, sensory denial is central to how they cope with extremes – primarily by using air conditioning.

        • tyranny@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          coldest day of the year so far, midwinter. I’m snuggling in bed with 3 blankets and a hot water bottle. i am engaged in sensory denial