The unbearable heaviness of the air
Published on 26.07.2022
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Opinion
What a funny season! Strange summer where the excessive heat throws a cold, where the chills are added to the torpor at the announcement of tomorrows which will become disillusioned. These long-awaited evenings on the terrace, without a sweater until late at night, why must they be clouded by a feeling of guilt: if it’s so hot, it’s because the climate is derailed, and if the climate crazy, whose fault is it?
There is, in this summer of 2022, an unbearable heaviness in the air, a prelude to these storms which smash the atmosphere to end days that are too hot. Everything is so heavy! The war in Ukraine and its human and energy consequences; water scarcity and retreating glaciers; flights of Canadairs over the hectares of burning pines in the Gironde and rotations of helicopters watering heifers in the Pre-Alps; the economy which fears overheating and uncertainties, prices which are soaring and the Covid which is experiencing a flashback, s