Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.
(Stares in bewildered Australian) And?
I swear to fucking god if I see another post about someone from the southern hemisphere saying shit like this. No one on Tumblr is capable of understanding when someone is talking about their own experience and be normal about it. I don't even really give a shit about the Christmas side of this just that climate change has gotten so bad that there is no longer ice in Scotland in December and you should be worried about that actually. Imagine if people came on here being like I don't give a shit about Australian wildfires because it doesn't effect me
Just saying, while I share the sentiment of being weirded out by increasingly warm winters, the idea of "snowy Christmas" is profoundly anglocentric, even within Europe.
The concept of a "white Christmas" is pretty rare to experience anywhere in Europe southern than Amsterdam (so 3/4ths of Europe, population-wise). Hell, even some of the nordic capitals (Copenhagen and Stockholm) only get white Christmas maybe once per decade or so. Sure, it can snow everywhere, but in December? It's rarely enough for the snow to actually settle.
So yeah, not really a very significant portion of Europe, really.
Oh my god you people can't read anything without being mad that it's not about you.
Actually no, I'm reblogging this again because I'm actually super fucking pissed at the dismissal, not just of the rest of the world with the 'eurocentric' comment but also about how fucking DIRE this is.
The cree word that we've adopted for December is "pawahcahkinaspisim". It means Trees Cracking Moon. Because it's supposed to be so cold by this moon (month) that the sudden drop in the temperature makes the trees make this god awful loud CRACK sound as the sap and wood freeze. It was 10C/50F today. It's supposed to be -10/14F, and often drops to -20 as cold as -40, so yes, actually this lack of snow and cooler temperatures is a big freaking deal. Not to mention the lack of snow means a lack of spring melt which means even more fires next year.
