Apocalypse from now on? – spiked
As with every other extreme weather event today, our political and media class were determined to present this week s heatwave as part of our unfolding climate catastrophe . They wanted to turn it into yet another episode in the dominant metanarrative of our era. Living through what we re living through , wrote one columnist of our scorched descent, seeing it take hold, and not knowing where it will end, isn t just terrifying, it s unbearable& . Others struck the same terrified note. This is just the beginning , said Bill McGuire, a University College London professor of geophysical and climate hazards, in the Guardian. When our children are our age, they will yearn for a summer as cool as 2022.
The heatwave seemed to merely confirm what many among our cultural elites already knew that things are always, inexorably getting worse as we hurtle towards our sun-burnt doom.
The weather’s been warm but nice out chere in East County. Too hot for my taste but better than June gloom in La Jolla. Alexa says today’s high will be 87. Now it’s 74. So the world will end, but not today.