Banning Fossil Fuels Will Make Heat Waves More Dangerous, Not Less, by Connor O’Keeffe

mist during heat wave

On Sunday, activists from the environmentalist organization Extinction Rebellion stormed the green in the final, pivotal moments of the Travelers Championship, a professional golf tournament. The protesters tossed red and white chalk and smoke bombs before being tackled to the ground by police. The stunt came days after two protesters with the group Just Stop Oil, a youth-led offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, sprayed orange paint on Stonehenge.

The environmentalist protesters who do stunts like this are refreshingly honest about the destructive nature of their ambitions. They see the comforts and leisures of modern life as maladies to be eradicated in the name of saving the climate.

But while the means these protesters used in the two high-profile stunts last week have come under wide condemnation, the environmentalist ends of such groups enjoyed blind acceptance in the news media amid a couple dramatic heat waves playing out around the world.

Temperatures rose to record-breaking heights for June across the eastern United States late last week and over the weekend. The United Kingdom experienced a heat wave that, while mocked by many in the US for being laughably mild, brought temperatures far higher than the region is used to. Most dramatically, extreme heat killed over a thousand people during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Overall, more than fourteen hundred temperature records were broken around the world last week.

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One response to “Banning Fossil Fuels Will Make Heat Waves More Dangerous, Not Less, by Connor O’Keeffe

  1. Neo is the One

    Enemedia just reported that 500 have died in Pakistan in a little over a week due to summer heat.

    Don’t they have some odd clothes, no water or something for living in an area that has a real summer? (so hmm)

    Fossil fuel use and industrial purposes in Pakistan generated nearly 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MtCO₂) emissions in 2022. This was a decrease of around eight percent in comparison to the previous year, when the country had recorded the highest figure since 1970.

    In the United States, consumption of energy derived from fossil fuels came to approximately 77.2 quadrillion British thermal units in 2023.This represented a decrease of some 1.7 percent in comparison to the previous year.

    (H/T-Statista)

    Something doesn’t add up here.

    Hmm…so hmm.

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