Climate crisis

These things have been known about and predicted for decades and nothing has been done. I doubt it will. Doing something effective challenges too many assumptions people make about how they ought to be able to live—individual mass motorisation, fly everywhere at the drop of a hat, waste energy willy-nilly, run billions of computers 24/7 with the Internet probably being the technology carrying the greatest unfulfilled potential of any technology ever, and that's not even to mention the absolute nonsense of making things in only a few places and then carting them all across the globe, dismantling good delivery systems like the old postal services and replacing them with wasteful and regressive privatisations, the packaging madness, and certain people starting wars, just like that, and causing more waste and devastation, including blowing up energy infrastructure of all kinds—, and right now the distribution of flooding is still confined to individual regions, so that unaffected regions can come to help—that's not going to remain the case.

The Spanish floods are now officially worse than the flood in the Ahr Valley in Germany, which is admittedly a much smaller area, with at least 140 dead and rising (135 in the Ahr Valley).