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What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?

Does Europe need to plant more trees in it's cities?

It appears that Europe does many things right for sustainability and climate change - public transit over cars, recycling, reducing carbon footprint better compared to other parts of the world. Of course all communities can do better at reducing their carbon footprint - Is this America's fault with their carbon footprint that Europe is suffering? America has their cars, and simply cranks up their Air conditioners when it's hot.

What else is there to do? I thought China had success improving their renewable energy output, even though they are still polluters, is it the actions of China and the USA causing misery in Europe? How do we help Europeans suffering and prevent this from happening again?

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a tantalizing idea simply to blame the US for the deteriorating climate in Europe. But that seems both pointless and unjustified. Industrialization and excessive emissions started in Europe. We have gone into debt far enough ourselves in a manner of speaking, we can't blame the yanks although their government currently is .... well, you know.

Europeans are going to buy air conditioners and they will probably outfit cooling facilities that people can seek refuge from the heat in as a stop gap measure. That's definitely causing more nuclear waste in France where atom splitting reigns supreme. Although nuclear power generation will suffer when rivers needed for cooling become mere trickles. And for the rest of the continent one can only hope they don't burn shit to turn turbines to make more power. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

There is no way to prevent these heatwaves; the damage is already done. If we stopped burning stuff today everywhere, we could prevent them from getting worse. That's just a very sensible pipe dream unfortunately.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I was under the impression that Europe's current carbon footprint was lower than much of the world.

Nuclear energy is an interesting discussion. I've heard the suggestion that it's one good alternative specifically for now until communities and countries can get better renewable energy alternatives. But people can be so weary due to the low but real risk that things have gone wrong in the past.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

europe needs to invest in ACs, apparently the continent temperatures rises alot faster than other continents as for an immediate solution, long term, they need to accelerate into green energy.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The idea we seem to be going with is that we could kill everyone in Europe who isn't extremely wealthy. Then there will be no one in that region in danger from climate change, and far less pollution globally.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Plot out the sun, obviously.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eat less meat, beef in particular.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I already abstain from beef for environmental reasons. And limit my dairy too.

I heard that the local nut farms in my region consume a lot of ground water. and the majority of their sales are abroad, so I try to eat less nuts now too. I don't want to support nut farms in my area that majority focus on selling abroad or to far away places, because us locals need that ground water more than their profits.

[–] DudeWhoYapsTooMuch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They're going have to actually focus on Green based energy instead of relying to America and China and many more other countries to do so.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Solar panels raise temperatures btw.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40280-9

So do giant concrete facilities with heat producing batteries on them.

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[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com -1 points 2 months ago

There is nothing else to do. We went beyond the tipping point on warming and those in charge didn't listen. It only gets worse from here.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What else is there to do?

Wait.

We can do things, or we have done things, and then we have to wait until the results happen.

The current trouble originates from what we have done during the last decades/centuries. Everything we do now will have impact on what we will experience a few decades/centuries later.

But nothing that we do "now" can change things "now".

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think there's more that Europe can do besides sit back and wait.

Since over 1000 people have died, European countries can plan for the next heat wave. Apparently some people have drowned because they swam in areas they didn't realize were more dangerous than they appeared. Installing informative signs or posting life guards in high traffic areas could save lives at rivers and lakes. That's just one idea.

We know the elderly have disproportionately died and they don't notice the heat as well due to poor blood circulation, so sharing information specifically for seniors in their languages could save lives. There's still plenty to learn and do now.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I said to wait is one more neccessary thing to do before the effects of current actions will become visible.

I did not say to wait is all we can do!

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