The data in EuroMoMo is quite stable now: The heatwave in calendar week 26 resulted in more than 15,000 excess deaths across Europe. That was worse than the flu wave this January.
Also, interesting that it was primarily France and Belgium. Then Germany.
For Portugal it was a rather normal week, it seems.
Fun fact: in Germany, there was no mention about any of those deaths from the CDU government, not even a short, generic statement. But they were really fast with supporting companies when the economy was affected due to low water in the rivers (also because of heat).
Lives being lost due to global warming will just be a number in a statistic. To really get capitalist countries to do something against the warming, you need to always frame your arguments in a way that it will help the businesses. Otherwise they won’t care.
Gotta keep the gasoline flowing. What’s a few deaths if it means that Volkswagen can keep building the same shit nobody wants?