The World Is Too Hot!

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​THE WORLD IS TOO HOT!

       Dear Cyberarchivist from hundreds or perhaps thousands of years in the future who, while sifting through ancient internet postings, has happened across this blog, written as a chronicle of life as it was during the first quarter of the 21st century A.D. of human existence:
       On this day, July 20, 2023, the planet has finally gotten so hot that much of humanity is in the grip of an excruciating and deadly heat wave that is pushing temperatures in some parts of the world up beyond the limits of what human life can endure.
       For the better part of the past month the West and Southwest regions of my country, the United States of America, have been under what's being called a heat dome, with temperatures in those areas hitting record high extremes.

   
​       The California Bay Area

      Temperatures in countries on the continent of Europe have likewise been as hot as in the United states,

...while in the countries of the Middle and Far East, the temperature has soared to 122 degrees. In the Middle Eastern Persian Gulf the temperature hit 152 degrees, far above what human and animal life can survive.

    As for me, in the Midwestern suburb where I live the temperature has been hovering all month around a balmy 87 - 90 degrees.

​     Of course, I say "balmy" facetiously, but at least where I live we've been blessed this summer with occasional showers,

...and, in my neighborhood at least, with trees offering some cooling shade. 

       Scientist have been warning for decades that if humans did nothing to change our global warming activities, specifically the burning of fossil fuels,

...and the destruction of the planet's cooling rainforests for commercial gain,

...climate change would usher in temperatures that would make our planet too hot. And now our planet is too hot.
       And yet, these scientists say, it's not too late to save the planet and ourselves if our world leaders would come together immediately to begin combating climate change.
        But in my country, the United States of America, the wealthiest and most powerful on the planet, without whose support and backing no global initiative can go very far, there's a body of overly powerful politicians, Republicans by name, who have no interest, even in this heat crisis, of doing anything to fight climate change.
             These powerful leaders fight for only two things: They fight to deny women any access, under any circumstances, to abortion, and they fight to put back into power a former President of our country, a a corrupt billionaire who has been indicted on several felonies and who once tried to overthrow our democracy.  

          And so while the powerful American Republican leaders fiddle with trifles, our country and the world burns.
      But tell me, Dear Cyberactivist of the future, does this terrible heat of July, 2023 mark the beginning of human beings finally taking action to save our planet and ourselves? Or does it mark the beginning of the end for us?
         But then  you might now be around to know.

References
​https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/extreme-weather-heat-floods-abnormal-climate-scn/index.html

​https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/17/europe-heatwave-italy-spain-record-climate/