One joins the safe and highly comforting bet of Natza Farré, who yesterday headlined that winter will return (I was going to write that I join it "warmly", but during a heatwave it is an adverb that makes you sweat just reading it). However, it will be veeery long until winter returns. The heatwave has all sorts of effects and none of them good, except, perhaps, that every day we spend melting like an ice cream makes it harder to deny the evidence of climate change and oppose a thorough review of our consumption models.
The fact is that the blockage of normal, everyday life is a reality. Yesterday's experience: four in the afternoon, passengers begin to board a plane at El Prat. Halfway through, the operation is interrupted. After a quarter of an hour, the pilot informs the passengers who are already inside the aircraft, holding onto the meager trickle of cold air coming out above their heads, that the air conditioning in the finger has broken down, that the interior temperature of the corridor has risen to 30 degrees and that, according to established procedures, if they do not soon bring a mobile cold air unit to lower the temperature, those inside will have to disembark and the finger will have to be closed because people cannot be exposed to these temperatures. In the end (two hours delay) they fix the breakdown, board the passengers who had remained outside, close the doors, ramps, and the plane departs.
It is clear that all of this is not sustainable, and it cannot be that what they call the “ecological transition” is taking so long. Perhaps those responsible for this transition (like those of the other one we wrote with capital letters) are ensuring that, when the transition ends, the usual suspects will continue to be in charge.
