Europe’s dry riverbeds and scorched earth – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2026/aug/07/europe-dry-riverbeds-scorched-earth-hot-weather-in-pictures

photo gallery of impacts

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budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 49d (6 replies)

This is what ignoring climate change for 50+ years looks like.

veganpizza69@lemmy.vg · 7 pts · 49d

this is the aperitif for that.

atm0Sph3r3Junk13@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 49d (4 replies)

Painful to look at. We need to draw closer to one another. The governments won't do shit.

TBi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 49d (3 replies)

Government is what people vote for. Unfortunately majority of the people don’t care or believe in climate change.

budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 48d (1 reply)

It's not that binary. The majority of people do care and believe in climate change, but still rank it below more urgent sociopolitical problems. Unfortunately, this has a similar effect to outright denial in delaying most effective action to prevent it.

HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 48d

Yep, they say that they care but want it to be someone else's problem.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 48d

The numbers and polling do not support this conclusion.

HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 49d (1 reply)

All the pictures of dead grass just makes me think you should be growing something else. When I go for a walk I still see greenery despite over a month without rain. It just isn't from the grass.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 48d

^ truth

Frettchen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d

It was always this. I can remember this one time my great great grandfather told a story he heard from his history teacher that this has happened! They all nearly died. So nothing new! Can't be us! /S