(draft) The summer of 2023 has provided us with a clear indication that the weather is changing to unknown charters, due to climate change. Heat domes remaining for days, heat waves in June and September; Terrible rain in Libya, Italy, Greece, with land slides and loss of crops and fertile soil. Add to it the wildfires in numerous locations like Crete, Greece, Portugal. Questions arise about the livability of cities. Cities are heat islands, due to the concrete and stone that are storing the heat, and releasing it in the night. Inhabitants are buying air conditioning, that is lowering the heat inside, and just increasing the heat on the street. Bruzz writes an interesting series of articles about climate and heat islands https://www.bruzz.be/milieu/brussel-klimaatbestendige-stad-we-moeten-meer-doen-elke-straat-2023-09-25 The focus of these are a lot about adding trees, removing concrete, painting the rooftops white. For me there are other ...
2023 I start the year wondering which catastrophe will come this year, and I am getting ready for the word 'Brace for impact' like in airline terms for whatever: - an upcoming heat wave - a crazy shooting in a crowded shopping street - an uppercut right wing party election - a car driving by too fast - an unidentified drone flying above the Belgian airspace - a cyberattack - a real heart attack Than I look around me from Transforma coworking in Evere, see a white Porsche parked whose owner I know and greet, a container of Mover Potiez Demain, that uses former prisoners to move stuff, and the former Nato headquarters juste behind that are now used for judging Belgian extermist terror and a blue sky above. Should I brace for impact all the time? Should I just ignore that there is a war going on in less than 2 hours flight from here, that the frogs are waking up in the middle of the winter and being hit by cars? Or sho...