[roenxi]

Absolutely so. What are they supposed to be sacrificing their comfort and profit to achieve?

Article says 61,000 people in Europe died in the 2022 heatwaves. Something like 60,000,000 people die annually (I'd guess about 6 million in Europe) [0]. How much comfort and profit were we meant to sacrifice to prevent that rounding error? Air pollution from coal plants that could directly kill people is a better argument for phasing them out than these heat waves.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-per-year

[mpweiher]

More significantly, about 10x the number that die of heat-related causes die of cold-related causes.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

[myshpa]

It's a global problem. Time of Europe will come soon enough.