The political little theatre is even more unbearable with the heat
Governments will have to leave everything they are doing to deal with emergencies. In climate adaptation, it is where partisanship and associated foolishness become increasingly unbearable.
When I returned from the United States and colleagues, future correspondents, came to ask me for advice for the day they could go to work there, I told them – and I tell them – that knowing American history or the political system of checks and balances is all well and good, but that the most important thing is that they be in shape. That they would experience a lot of heat and a lot of cold, that they would be subjected to extreme climatic conditions: scorching temperatures, monstrous snowfalls, and months with frozen sidewalks and without being able to have a coffee on a terrace, tornadoes, gales, that the electricity would go out, meaning the refrigerator and air conditioning. Or the heating… and that, in addition to suffering it, they would have to go and explain it on the front lines. And that if they didn't make themselves physically and mentally strong, it would be very hard for them.Well, this has already arrived here, in Catalonia. You only have to look at the records that are being broken these days:“Barcelona breaks its heat record in 113 years. The Fabra Observatory registers a temperature of 40.9 degrees”. In Vinebre, temperatures exceeded 44 degrees. And we have it for another week.It is not adventurous to think that the usual September downpours may be particularly dangerous this year, taking into account the amount of heat that the land and sea will have stored. All these extreme phenomena have a cost in health, physical and mental, in lifestyles, in leisure, but also, in the functioning of basic services and the maintenance of infrastructure. Increasingly, governments will have to drop everything they are doing to deal with emergencies and, in general, to adapt public spaces and services (streets, natural parks, schools, hospitals, residences) to the new climatic conditions. And us, too.
And here, in civil protection, in climate adaptation, it is where partisanship and associated foolishness become increasingly unbearable.
Mirin Trump: in the morning he threatens Denmark over Greenland and Spain for not spending enough on Defense with NATO, but in the afternoon Spain is good again. In passing, take the opportunity to threaten Iran, drive up the price of oil, and sink the stock markets.
Feijóo looks at: each day weaker, subject to the hard wing and without its own profile, and that he wants to mark it, he gets his foot in it. First he says that the level of sick leave in Spain is a "cancer" and then the PP has to come out to clarify that it was referring to the fraud of low [benefits]. If you play hard and stand by the employers, or if you want to bring this debate to the table, at least know what you're saying.
It must be the heat, but this little theater is especially unbearable for me.
Good morning.
