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Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.

It is relatively good. Climate change is bad, families left out in the cold because they can't afford rising gas and electricity prices is bad, so we are lucky in our being fucked. It could have been worse.

Silver lining and all that.

Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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On the other hand, if we could stop considering only the economic aspect of everything and see that the downside of this is that we are destroying our water reserves that took thousands of years to accumulate...

The economic aspect is the social aspect.

It does not have to be black and white, with or against us. People have not frozen to death because of a cold autumn and prices to the roof. Can we talk about that or shall we resort to fatalism?

Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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On the other hand, if we could stop considering only the economic aspect of everything and see that the downside of this is that we are destroying our water reserves that took thousands of years to accumulate...

Well, the economic aspect of things is essential just as physical constrains. You can't wish away certain things like availability of other resources, or people behaving responsibly with no economic incentive. Talking about water reserves. I actually have my own well that I went through the approval and build process about a decade ago(in EU). I had to declare "maximum consumption per day". So my point is, there is s…

Wells and groundwater pretty much work only for those living atop the water table. In the Alps we rely on water stored under the form of glaciers for drinking, sanitary and energy generation. The latest megasummer with the freezing point well above 5000mt decimated our storage which took thousands of years to accumulate.

Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.

I can enjoy an unseasonably warm October. I did not enjoy the unseasonably warm July.

Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

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> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.

The seriousness of climate change is not lost on me, but your comment is rather heartless. In the UK the 'eating or heating?' question is real for many families this winter. It is fair to say that the warm October was a gift from the gods.
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