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> in my opinion, a lot of folks won't take climate change seriously until it adversely affects their way of life in such a dramatic way that they cannot deny it any longer.

It won't. People you are talking about have access to air conditioning. They will not care about people dying in distant places, whom become an annoyance after a while. They will just wish people die silently without complaining.

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Hate to agree but yeah. We've already seen a number of deadly heat waves in Europe.

In 2003, 70,000 people died in the EU from a heat wave [1]. A fact that is never really comes up in talks about climate change.

The death toll could be millions and we'd still see deniers clamoring that we need to burn more coal for grid stability or whatever.

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230717-parisians-a...

The short-term patch is to install air conditioning (or go to the mall, or even an air conditioned car). That's what people at risk of this will do.

More people die of cold than heat, a fact that never comes up in talks about climate change.

Obviously there's a limit, but based on the data about lives lost due to cold vs. warm temps, we should expect increased global temps to first save human lives since a lot more people freeze to death.

And think of all the money we'll save on jackets

As is the case with the new social media meme where "Europoors" don't have ACs and should be ridiculed for it.

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