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 ” When asked about willingness to engage in initiatives toward a decarbonized society, 89.2% responded that they would like to participate “actively” or “to some extent.” On the other hand, 9.7% stated they “do not want to participate.” Reasons for this reluctance (multiple answers allowed), “I don’t know if it will be effective” was cited by 56.4%. Regarding the term “climate change adaptation”—efforts to prevent or mitigate natural disasters such as heatwaves and floods caused by climate change—51.6% stated they “did not know” the term, exceeding the 11.6% who stated they “knew” it.”

Source : 90% Feel Summer Is Getting Longer, But Remain Reluctant to Take Action Against Global Warming

Suer dans la joie

 

The Sweat, autrice Sarah Everts, 2021

La canicule vécue

 

Imaginons une distribution géographique du nombre de décès attribuables à une vague de chaleur plutôt que la simple mention d’une température. 

‘I Can’t Cool’ Extreme Heat and Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change

Le droit à un climat vivable.

Climate Rights International.

Rapport.

Pendant ce temps-là, au sud d’ici

 La température de l’hémisphère opposé est inversement proportionnelle à celle de l’hémisphère-ci. 

Le climat étant une affaire locale et même nationale - la France cuit au soleil tandis que l’Allemagne croûle sous la neige - il est impossible de s’imaginer par exemple l’Australie, sauf si y être.

Par contre, si l’on cherche heatwave, on trouve que cela a lieu maintenant loin d’ici comme cela aura lieu ici dans 7 mois loin de chez eux.

Article du The Guardian.

L’indigence des recommandations est par contre internationale, y compris l’iconographie axée sur le vitalisme - la population locale se situe entre 20 et 40 ans - l’exposition de corps sur la plage en plein cagnard “pour se rafraîchir”, l’absence de personnes âgées et de personne professionnellement exposées, sauf au moment de la publication des rapports de surmortalité, l’absence de l’ombre comme thème d’intérêt majeur, et l’éternel profil de quelqu’un explosant d’une sueur vitale en train de gober goulument de l’eau d’une pet bottle avec le soleil flouté en perspective. 

A noter : Jean Jouzel (ed). Climate emergency: a decivise turning point?. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 357 (2025). doi: 10.5802/crgeos.sp.2 

En particulier, l’article La crise écologique comme fait social. Penser le gouvernement de la transition avec les sciences sociales.

Lecture d’intérêt : Heat, A Global History

“ I argue that not only is there a difference in intensity between warming and heating, but also a crucial difference in kind: nobody really suffers from “global warming,” which is an abstraction. Instead, we suffer from more immediate causes of human distress—waves

of heat and cold, desertification, droughts, floods, storms, and more. In this book I argue that many scientific methods of accounting for heat, expressed through the shorthand phrases “global warming” and “climate change,”have actually desensitized us to environmental overheating. They are, ironically, part of the story of how the global middle classes grew numb as the world got hotter.”

Extrait de Heat, A Global History, On Barak.

Article édifiant sur Vox autour du déni de chaleur

 Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it.

Tough it out : 我慢する

L’article figure dans la série The Vox Guide to Extreme Heat, qui n’évite pas malgré tout les images d’illustration suggérant la résilience comme norme. Personnes à la plage, s’aspergeant du contenu d’une bouteille d’eau sur la tête avec le cagnard brillant en perspective. 

“In fact, heat has been associated with physical and emotional endurance since the earliest modern novels — Don Quixote was very much toughing it out on his way to tilt at windmills. Narratively and thematically, heat typically represents hot tempers, madness and paranoia, and a growing tension and unease that often leads to aggression. It also co-exists with the concept of coolness — of “never letting them see you sweat.”

One character who did let us see him sweat did so in a movie that embodies the concept of calm under pressure — Paul Newman as Cool Hand Luke. The 1967 classic saw Newman nonchalantly dripping all over the celluloid while delivering an iconic performance as an unflappable prisoner serving a brutal term under grueling, sweltering conditions. Newman typified idealized masculinity that only grows stronger when put to the test — a test that in Cool Hand Luke includes enduring the heat.

The idea that oppressive heat is a phase that has to be borne until it passes — usually thanks to a climactic “break” in the weather like a rainstorm — exists in the narrative DNA of too many stories to count. Novels from One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Great Gatsby to Atonement use heat as a structural and thematic device to intensify emotion and conflict, push things to a breaking point, and then generate catharsis.”