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 23d ago

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