shimmeringdragonfire

1) Making fun of British people because it’s ‘just normal summer heat here lmao get over it and get AC’ is absolutely not fair. Think of it less in terms of ‘oh their summer is 40 degrees Celsius’ and more in terms of ‘their June is 20 degrees Celsius hotter than it would have been five years ago’. Quite simply, our infrastructure cannot handle a twenty degree temperature increase over such a small timeframe of five years and the majority just cannot afford to build new infrastructure such as AC units in homes, school and offices because in case you forgot Britain is currently in a cost of living crisis with an unstable government and we can barely afford to keep up the NHS. If your average summer temperature is 100 degrees Fahrenheit, imagine trying to live in 120 degrees. That’s what it’s like in Britain right now. Schools are being shut at midday because it’s too dangerous for kids to be in buildings made for retaining heat at peak temperature times. So quite frankly please shut up about that.

2) Justifying those mean comments by saying ‘all British people are evil because their ancestors colonised my country so they deserved it’ is plan wrong and genuinely not okay. Firstly, THE MAJORITY OF BRITISH PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM. It is taught in History GCSE as a BAD THING. Pretty much all young people in Britain are way too young to have anything to do with colonialism and laughing at kids that had nothing to do with anything and no control over where they were born dying in heatwaves in frankly disgusting. Also, in cities such as London which are badly affected by extreme heat, there are huge volumes of black, non-white, ethnically diverse British people that probably were affected by colonialism. Not everyone in Britain wears a top hat and sips tea. Literally 44% of Londoners are from Black, Asian or ethnic minority groups. One third of Londoners were not born in Britain. The ‘evil colonialist scum’ you could be laughing about being ‘a little hot’ could be the baby of a mother from a country previously colonised by Britain that worked her arse off providing for her family dying because the little apartment they managed to buy is insulated to retain heat and they can’t afford an AC unit. Yes, colonialism is terrible and we should try to wipe any traces of that despicable ideology off the face of the earth. But labelling 60 million people, of whom probably less than 4 million ever played a single part in evils of the past, as evil and worthy of suffering is genuinely a terrible and despicable thing to say.

3) the original post is 100% correct about this being soft climate change denialism. I am a young person living in the UK. Ten years ago, hell five years ago, it was normal to have winters that reached -5 degrees Celsius and summers that peaked at 25 degrees. The randomness of British weather has also always been legendary - jokes about having four seasons in one day are a classic - but both the temperature and the extremity of our weather has dramatically changed in a short space of time. We barely dip below five degrees anymore. You can look at our now regular forty degree summer heatwaves. Me and the people around me barely flinch when it hails at 2pm in May and 30 degree sun comes out thirty minutes later, or when it’s barely above ten degrees one week with snow and storms and it’s gloves weather but then a heatwave the next. Climate change is super evident in Britain and as mentioned in point 1, our infrastructure and work culture is not built for Mediterranean summers. We cannot keep up and it is not a good situation and saying that we’re being pussies is fucking insensitive.

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