It was updated to 2025 deaths (additional compared to average) this morning. +91% of people dying at home compared to the previous week. The final assessment will not be known for several weeks. https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/vagues-de-chaleur-canicules/au-moins-2-025-deces-supplementaires-ont-ete-recenses-pendant-la-canicule-du-mois-de-juin-annonce-la-ministre-de-la-sante_8091710.html
Sue the bastards
The stats show that this measurement changes a lot depending on when you take it. Excess deaths go up sharply during a heatwave, then drop below expectations in the six months afterwards.
Unsurprisingly, this is because the heat hits the most vulnerable hardest, especially those who are otherwise ill or dying.
Before anyone assumes this is some defence of the people responsible for this, I’d like to point out I’m making a statistical point, not a moral one.
I get your point. I’m thinking more generally - damages, disruption, distress. Those can’t be questioned IMO. Why not a general lawsuit? Make them pay to build better infrastructure to survive the mess they made (and made us buy into)
In principle you’re quite correct
The legal system, in most countries, was never designed to accommodate such a plan sadly.
You’ll run into issues proving both forseeability and causation from specific acts to specific outcomes.
There’s so many factors and an interdependent system, allocating burden is a challenge for a jury.
It can be done, it has been done in specific cases, but a general attribution of blame is going to struggle
I say we try
remember 2011 ? no ? no one else does either, 30,000 deaths in France from the heat back then. Like that, this b will soon be forgotten.
8 million a year die for starvation, another 8 million from air pollution
So few give a fuck outside some pearl clutching. France looks likely to elect Le Pen, Germany AfD, US elected Trump ffs, UK possible looking to elect Reform, Australia One Nation…
everywhere in every election were looking to make it worse.
On the pumps side were getting more and more confirmations the laws of physics do apply to this universe.
