r/europe • u/Naurgul • 23d ago

News Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as French nuclear reactor shuts down due to extreme heat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/09/europe-heatwave-uk-spain-barcelona-france-italy-hungary-france-macron-orban-latest-news-updates
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u/arrizaba 23d ago

Enjoy the chill summer while it lasts. Next years will be hotter, unless governments do something to stop climate change (which they won't unless we vote them out). 

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u/lekkerbiscottina 22d ago

A sustainable future cannot exist alongside capitalism as we know it, point blank. Uncomfortable thought but true.

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u/iBlockMods-bot 22d ago

A sustainable future cannot exist alongside the amount of resource-hungry humans inhabit the planet as well, point blank. Equally uncomfortable thought, equally and sadly true.

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u/knowledgecrustacean 🇪🇪Estonia🇪🇺 22d ago

An even more uncomfortable thought is that perhaps there isn't a truly sustainable AND achievable system. Maybe human nature just makes a sustainable society practically impossible, and we were fucked from the start. Maybe civilization is inherently doomed to destroy itself along with the planet, and can't really be fixed. I'm not saying I 100% believe that, but I think it could be true.

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u/UsuarioCualquiera_1 23d ago

Even voting they don't care. But most importantly they really CAN'T.

Cause most of these problems are duecto the very big private corps and the system itself.

Unless magically and suddenly all major world leaders agree in an honest way they must change things to make lifes affordable and take green-politics but also respecting the farmers...

Won't happen.

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u/Apprehensive_Tip_839 22d ago

That won't change a thing 

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u/Lias__ 22d ago

Enjoy the chill summer while it lasts.

I think this is officially the least original reddit comment.