<story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be honest, this heatwave has been an eye opener for me. I&amp;#x27;ve never been a climate skeptic, but I suppose I have been somewhat skeptical towards the more panicked claims regarding its impact.&lt;p&gt;As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn&amp;#x27;t something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It&amp;#x27;s terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-62432844&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-62432844&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shay_ker</author><text>This is precisely why climate change policy is so difficult to enact. Folks don’t understand the urgency until they experience it themselves, and by that point it’s gotten really bad.&lt;p&gt;There’s an analogy with tech debt or old software here somewhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be honest, this heatwave has been an eye opener for me. I&amp;#x27;ve never been a climate skeptic, but I suppose I have been somewhat skeptical towards the more panicked claims regarding its impact.&lt;p&gt;As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn&amp;#x27;t something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It&amp;#x27;s terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-62432844&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-62432844&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaedPsyker</author><text>For me what was eye-opening was the amount of digging in and denial of it.&lt;p&gt;I thought with it literally right there in your face that the denialists would come to some sense. No instead we got, &amp;quot;you can tell you weren&amp;#x27;t around in 1976, it was worse then&amp;quot;, which it wasn&amp;#x27;t and a basic check would clearly show that&amp;#x27;s a lie. &amp;quot;Oh the climate is always changing&amp;quot;, not at this rate.
The usual &amp;#x27;snowflake&amp;#x27; ad hominem attack thrown in too. I don&amp;#x27;t even understand what even is the point of this head in sand strategy.</text></comment>