Heatwave in Europe: have the politicians failed?

Austria, too, is bracing for a heatwave this weekend, but Kurier points out that other regions are far worse off:

“Unfortunately, we must also grasp that what Austria is currently experiencing is merely average on a global scale. Parts of Pakistan, India and West Africa are facing temperatures which, combined with high humidity, are forecast to reach levels where the human body can no longer cool itself through sweating – the life-threatening wet-bulb threshold. What is the exception now will become the norm for hundreds of millions by the middle of the century. Perhaps our sympathy for the world’s poorest people – who did not cause the climate crisis, but are suffering the most from it – will also gradually grow.”